Are there search strings that you find yourself having to use over and over while working on your code? Then take a look at Studio's Extended Find and Extended Replace features. The button next to the Find What box lets you save search text and load previously saved searches. And the selections...
Experienced Web developers know that not all colors are safe to use within Web pages - and not all colors are supported properly by all browsers on all platforms. ColdFusion Studio takes the guesswork out of picking colors by letting you pick them from specified palettes - including a palette named...
Multi-language sites are becoming common place (and expected too). ColdFusion is an ideal platform on which to build multi-language sites, but there is one important design consideration that you must pay attention to. Unless you want to end up with multiple copies of pages and sites (no, you don't...
HTML tables are an extremely important part of the language, and one Web developers use extensively (as they provide the only real way to control exact placement of objects relative to each other). But there is a big downside to using tables, a downside so significant that they should not be...
ColdFusion is very good at providing line numbers when errors occur - this way you can quickly find the exact line of code that caused the problem. But instead of scrolling up and down in Studio (looking at the status bar) to find the line you need, turn on the "Show line numbers in gutter" option....
We've all done it - insert a # before a variable name and forget the matching one, or type an opening quote or double quote but forget the ending one. ColdFusion Studio's Auto-Complete feature can help, but by default it does not complete pound signs and quotes. To turn on this feature select the...
The Euro is in the process of becoming the primary (or only) currency of many European countries, and ColdFusion supports the reading and writing of correctly formatted Euro values. Unlike other supported currencies, the Euro is not tied to any single country (or locale) so the standard locale...
Ever need to work with hexadecimal numbers (or any other non base-10 numbers)? ColdFusion will not automatically treat these as numbers, it's your job to convert them to "regular" numbers first. You can do this using the InputBaseN() function which takes a string and a base and returns a number. To...
The tag is very useful in halting processing in validation and authentication tests. When you use you usually need to display an error message along with it, and that usually requires some sort of format processing. One simple option is to use the SHOWERROR attribute which lets you specify an error...
and should be used to trap errors so as to be able to programmatically manage post error handling. To effectively use this feature, error handling should occur at at least two levels - at a page wide level (to catch all errors within a page) and at a feature or tag specific level (to catch errors...