Sams Teach Yourself ColdFusion® in 21 Days

Day 10. Enhancing Output with Tables and Groups

So far, the <CFOUTPUT> sections we've discussed have been designed simply to churn out the results of <CFQUERY> statements. We've used only basic paragraph or line-return tags to determine how the output displays in the user's browser. This design method works fine if a client's only aim is to display the contents of a database without any fancy formatting, but in the real world, your clients are likely to want more. They might want page data displayed in tables, grouped by type, or indexed for easy navigation. Today's discussion shows you how to make use of ColdFusion, SQL, and HTML features to enhance the look and readability of your output sections. We'll cover

• ColdFusion's <CFTABLE> tag

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