Programming ColdFusion MX, 2nd Edition

Name

cfcontent

Synopsis

<cfcontent>

Sends content of the specified media type to the browser. Content may be dynamically generated by ColdFusion or come from a file. The cfcontent tag is often used to send files stored above the web root directory to the browser or to generate non-HTML content for other clients, such as wireless devices (cell phones, PDAs, etc.).

Attributes

type=" MIME_type_and_or_charset "

The MIME type and/or character set for the content to be sent to the browser. charset lets you specify a Java character set to use for the encoding. The most common character sets are UTF-8 (the default), UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, US-ASCII, and ISO-8859-1. You may use any character set supported by your JRE. If you want to specify a MIME type and a character set, delimit them with a space or a semicolon: type="text/html; charset=utf-8". Required unless file or reset is specified.

deletefile="Yes|No"

Whether or not to delete the file after it has been sent to the browser. Valid only if a file was specified in the file attribute. Optional. The default is No.

file=" filename "

The name of the file being sent to the browser. Required unless type or reset is specified.

reset="Yes|No"

Whether or not to suppress any output preceding the call to the cfcontent tag. The reset attribute is ignored if a value is specified for file or type. The default is Yes.