[thelist] CF: Building a <body> tag.

Thu Feb 14 20:53:01 CST 2002

frank,

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> From: Frank
>
> I use a system with a template top and template bottom
> that wraps the content in the center. Some of my pages
> use javascript with onLoad(), but not all.
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you're running in to an age-old problem with the whole "header/footer"
template idea.

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> Application
>    -> TemplateTop
>       -> <body>
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that's one way to do it, but i'd suggest that outputting html in your
application.cfm file is sloppy.  that's probably because i consider the
application.cfm file to be intended for initializing the application and its
variables.  it's probably also because having application.cfm output html
means just that much more stuff in the file and makes it very difficult to
wrap your content in different templates on the fly.

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> OnRequestEnd
>   -> TemplateBottom
>      -> </body>
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ditto for outputting html with onrequestend.cfm

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> Can someone suggest a method whereby I can alter the
> body tag from within my scripts? The best solution I
> can think of is to set the body tag to a default
> variable, and to alter the variable from within my
> scripts, but they run after the TemplateTop has been
> included. How can I go by altering that one variable,
> after a doc has been included? Another kicker is that
> in every case, there is content after the body tag as
> well.
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well, the answer will depend on how much you need to alter the <body> tag.
what exactly do you need to do to it?

thanks,

.jeff

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