Andy asks:

If you have an ajax/html form and you submit using a button control which calls a function (like ColdFusion.Ajax.submitForm) is there still a way to easily take advantage of the built in cfform validation? This usually gets called when you use a submit, rather than a button, and I'd love to be able to call it right before I call my function that handles the cfform submission.

If I read you right - you want to know if you can use cfform validation as well as using your own logic after the validation. If so, it works pretty easily:

<cfif not structIsEmpty(form)> <cfdump var="#form#" label="Form"> </cfif>

<script> function doSomething() { alert('Called'); return false; } </script>

<cfform name="test" onSubmit="return doSomething()"> Who is the twelfth cylon? <cfinput name="name" required="true"> <cfinput name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit"> </cfform>

So read this from the bottom up. I've got a super simple form using CFFORM's built in validation for a grand total of one field (I'm easy like Sunday morning). Note the onSubmit. What's cool, and what I wasn't sure would work, is that doSomething won't run if there are any errors. As soon as your form is ok, it runs.

I'm very much a anti-cfform kind of guy, so I may be missing something obvious, but I hope this answers your question.