Question

I have a form that submitted by javascript via a button click. It was an ajax submit to an iframe. Everything was working fine until I changed the tag from ‘form’ to ‘cfform’. From what I understand, this shouldn’t cause a problem, but, obviously, I am mistaken. I need cfform because I want to use a cftextarea with the richtext attribute. With the tag as cfform, upon a submit the iframe displays a 404 which completely boggles my mind. Here is my code.

coldfusion:

//In my code, the lines are not broken like this
<cfform action="<cfif IsDefined('URL.itemID')>
    actionEditItem.cfm
<cfelse>
    actionAddItem.cfm</cfif>"
method="post" target="my_iframe" name="itemForm" enctype="multipart/form-data">

//the button that submits the form, again, lines aren't broken
<input type="button" <cfif IsDefined('URL.itemID')>
    value='Update Item' onClick='javascript:updateItem();'
<cfelse>
    value='Add Item' onClick='javascript:validateItem();'
</cfif>>

javascript:

    itemForm.submit();

Any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

You can’t put a CFIF inside the cfform tag like you are doing. It’s trying to render the cfform and breaking. This is not an issue with a regular html form. For this instance, I would set a temp var and use that within the action attribute.

<cfif structkeyexists(url,"itemID")>
    <cfset formAction = "actionEditItem.cfm">
<cfelse>
    <cfset formAction = "actionAddItem.cfm">
</cfif>
<cfform action="#formAction#" method="post" target="my_iframe" name="itemForm" enctype="multipart/form-data">
...

Alternatively, if you don’t want to use a temp var, you can use IIF.

<cfform action="#iif(structkeyexists(url,'itemID'),de('actionEditItem.cfm'),de('actionAddItem.cfm'))#">