Adding Tag Help

You can associate an HTML-based Help document with a tag by embedding the Help text inside the TAGDESCRIPTION block.

TAGDESCRIPTION example

Here's an example of a tag description block and the result in a Tag Editor:

<TAGDESCRIPTION HEIGHT=100>



    <B>CFAPPLICATION</B>

        <P>Defines scoping for a ColdFusion application and

        enables or disables storing client variables in the system

        registry. By default, client variables are disabled.

        CFAPPLICATION is typically used in the Application.cfm

        file to set defaults for a specific ColdFusion application.



</TAGDESCRIPTION>

Providing Help from an external file

As the Help content grows, it may become cumbersome to specify the entire body of the Help inside the TagDescription block. In addition, large bodies of Help embedded in the editor file will cause the editor dialog box to open more slowly as more markup has to be parsed to compose the editor. Under these circumstances, it advisable to provide large Help contents in a separate HTML file. Such files can then be referenced using a relative path from the tag editor template.

For example:

<TAGDESCRIPTION HELPFILE="Docs/TagHelpFile.htm"/>

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