The CFTEXTINPUT tag is similar to the HTML INPUT=text tag. With CFTEXTINPUT, however, you can also specify font and alignment options, as well as enable input validation methods using either a JavaScript or the VALIDATE attribute in CFTEXTINPUT.
The following example shows a basic CFTEXTINPUT control. This example validates a date entry, which means that a user must enter a valid date in the form mm/dd/yy. For a complete list of validation formats, refer to the CFML Language Reference.
<BR>Please enter a date: <CFFORM NAME="Form1" ACTION="cfform_submit.cfm" METHOD="Post"> <CFTEXTINPUT NAME="entertext" VALUE="mm/dd/yy" MAXLENGTH="10"
VALIDATE="date"FONT="Trebuchet MS"> <BR> <INPUT TYPE="Submit" VALUE="Submit"> </CFFORM>
The value of the form variable passed from a CFTEXTINPUT control to a ColdFusion application page is determined by the entry in the CFTEXTINPUT control. The form variable is passed as:
textinput_name=textinput_value
In the example just above, the form variable would have been passed as:
entertext=textinput_value
So in the destination application page, the form variable is referenced as #entertext#