[thelist] cfhtmlhead tag
Palyne Gaenir
palyne at sciencehorizon.com
Tue Jul 18 17:17:56 CDT 2000
ColdFevoltians, the help this list has given me appears to have
finally helped me begin to truly 'GET IT' with coldfusion. (I know
it's made so even a walnut could understand it, but I'm slow.) I
really appreciate it. Inspired by this (and the virtual nearness of
Jeff, which could perhaps inspire some scriptoid-jungian-osmosis of
knowledge through the mass consciousness of internet - hey! it could
happen!), I'm going through and looking for everything I can do, to
make my scripts and way of going about things better.
With that as intro I'm going to be posting some Q's to the list about
stuff that Forta either doesn't explain in detail in his basic CF
book, or that I just don't understand. Hope the gurus have mercy on
me -- and that the answers help others, too.
Starting with this one:
About CFHEADER Forta says there is usually little need to use it.
The CFHTMLHEAD tag seemed much neater; Forta uses <title> as an
example. I tried using more than one of those tags (didn't work);
putting multiple lines of head code in one tag (didn't work). I
tried CFINCLUDEing a whole block of head text; didn't work (required
reload/refresh to get all stuff read, it appeared, but this was
inconsistent so I'm not sure).
How can I put a whole BLOCK of stuff in my head section via the
application file? Stylesheet spec and language and doctype,
copyright, webmaster, for example.
I found ONE way to do it. I wrote every special character to its
html equiv ( ()[]{}<>:;,'" etc.), and wrote all my head lines in
there, then stuck all the lines together as one massive variable to
pass. That worked. It's kinda hard to decipher in the appfile
though.
So now I use abbreviations -- setting variables in the app file for
values and then using a template that has the code for those tags and
the variable-as-value in the head. But I still have to be listing
all the stuff in the doc. I'm trying to get out of putting anything
more in the doc than I absolutely have to.
Is there a way of using the CFHTMLHEAD or CFHEADER tags to put an
entire block of meta, http, and other tags into the head of a
document?
Regards,
Palyne
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