Posted in ColdFusion | Posted on 11-05-2008 | 2,995 views
Here is an interesting little issue a reader ran into this week. Can you tell me why the following code throws an error?
2<cftextarea name="comments" value="Congrats Obama!">
3</cftextarea>
4</cfform>
The error that is thrown is:
Attribute validation error for the CFTEXTAREA tag.
The value of the VALUE attribute cannot be defined twice. ''
Seems rather odd, doesn't it? There is clearly only one value attribute above. But the reader forgot that normally, the value of a textarea is defined between the beginning and end tag, like so:
2Congrats Obamas!
3</cftextarea>
Because his code had a line break between the start and end tag, ColdFusion considered that white space to be a value, and threw an error. Personally I think ColdFusion could just do a quick trim() check if it has an value attribute, but the fix is easy enough. You can move the value between the tags as I have before. Or you can remove the line break:
And lastly, you can just use a shorthand notation for the closing tag:
I thought it should be:
<cftextarea name="comments">Congrats Obama!</cftextarea>
Does anyone have problems with form validation failing on cftextarea where fckeditor is enabled? I get the validation alert that for all the fckeditor fields upon submit (even though the fields contain valid data), but if I immediately submit again, the form submits. Any idea why I have to submit twice? Tia, Sarah