im not that much of a beginner just ask stupid ?'s that i never learned the first time around, now that i have some time too learn it right. its funny most ppl who know me always make fun cause of all the css i do, but hell, it validates!
anyways, i will look this over & thanks!
dave
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:34:14 +1000
>Without running it to check, here's what I think you need to eliminate
>a lot of the white space.
>
>Incidentally i notice you're using the XHTML style tags (<br />) which
>is good, but you also have a font tag. That's deprecated and you
>shouldn't use it. Instead use a style sheet and put your styling in
>there. It's far more powerful, faster, smaller, and easier to
>maintain.
>
>Instead of:
> <div align="center">
> <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">
>
>put this:
><div class="error">
>
>And in your style sheet, have something like the following:
>
>.error {
> font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;
>text-align: center;
>}
>
>That way, whenever you use <div class="error"> the resulting style
>will be defined by the single paragraph in the style sheet. One
>change there, and all instances of the 'error' class will change
>throughout the whole site.
>
>
>
>Anyway, your question was about white space control. Putting the
>CFsetting tag at the top and bottom of the page ensures that anywhere
>you might use this page will not affect other pages it might be called
>as an include. If you didnt turn the cfsetting off at the bottom of
>the page, and then included it in another page, the enableoutputonly
>would still be turned on through that next page. That might or might
>not be what you want. It's a better way to have your pages
>self-contained at least as far as whitespace control is concerned.
>
>HTH
>
><cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="Yes">
><!--- make sure form was submitted --->
> <cfif NOT isdefined("form.jam")>
> <cfoutput>
> <h2>Sorry there has been an error, please try again</h2>
><p><a href=""> >Go back
></a></p>
></cfoutput>
> <cfabort>
> </cfif>
> <!--- set trim form variables --->
> <cfset agent_first_name = #trim(form.first_name)#>
> <cfset agent_last_name = #trim(form.last_name)#>
> <cfset agent_company = #trim(form.company)#>
> <cfset agent_email = #trim(form.email)#>
> <cfset agent_username = #trim(form.username)#>
> <cfset agent_password = #trim(form.password)#>
> <cfset agent_home_phone = #trim(form.home_phone)#>
> <cfset agent_work_phone = #trim(form.work_phone)#>
> <cfset agent_toll_free = #trim(form.toll_free)#>
> <cfset agent_cell_phone = #trim(form.cell_phone)#>
> <cfset agent_fax = #trim(form.fax)#>
> <cfset agent_url = #trim(form.web)#>
> <cfset agent_address1 = #trim(form.address)#>
> <cfset agent_address2 = #trim(form.address_more)#>
> <cfset agent_city = #trim(form.city)#>
> <cfset agent_state = #form.state#>
> <cfset agent_zip = #trim(form.zip)#>
> <cfset agent_country = #form.country#>
> <cfset agent_IP = #form.ip#>
> <cfset startdate = #CreateODBCDate(Now())#>
> <cfset agent_bio = "na">
> <cfset agent_region = "na">
> <cfset agent_province = "na"><!--- secure variables --->
> <cfset agent_first_name = #HTMLEditFormat(agent_first_name)#>
> <cfset agent_last_name = #HTMLEditFormat(agent_last_name)#>
> <cfset agent_company = #HTMLEditFormat(agent_company)#>
> <cfset agent_username = #HTMLEditFormat(agent_username)#>
> <cfset agent_password = #HTMLEditFormat(agent_password)#>
> <cfset agent_url = #HTMLEditFormat(agent_url)#>
> <cfset agent_city = #HTMLEditFormat(agent_city)#>
> <cfset agent_address1 = #HTMLEditFormat(agent_address1)#>
> <cfset agent_address2 = #HTMLEditFormat(agent_address2)#><!---
>check for duplicate usernames --->
> <cfquery name="qcun" datasource="#dsn#" username="#un#" password="#pw#">
> SELECT agent_username
> FROM users
> WHERE agent_username =
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_username#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
> </cfquery>
> <cfif #qcun.recordcount# GTE 1>
> <cflocation url="" addtoken="no">
> <cfabort>
> </cfif>
> <cftry>
> <cftransaction>
><!--- do insert now --->
> <cfquery name="qinsertUser" datasource="#dsn#" username="#un#" password="#pw#">
> INSERT INTO users
> (agent_first_name, agent_last_name, agent_company, agent_email,
>agent_username,
> agent_password, agent_home_phone, agent_work_phone, agent_toll_free,
>agent_cell_phone,
> agent_fax, agent_url, agent_address1, agent_address2, agent_city, agent_state,
> agent_zip, agent_country, agent_IP, startdate, agent_bio,
>agent_region, agent_province)
> VALUES
> (
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_first_name#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_last_name#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_company#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_email#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_username#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_password#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_home_phone#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_work_phone#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_toll_free#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_cell_phone#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_fax#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_url#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_address1#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_address2#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_city#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_state#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_zip#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_country#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_IP#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#startdate#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_date">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_bio#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_region#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>,
> <cfqueryparam value="#agent_province#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
>)
> </cfquery>
></cftransaction><!--- catch any db errors --->
> <cfcatch type="database">
> <cfoutput>
> <div class="error">
>
><hr/><h2>Sorry there has been an error with the database, please try
>again</h2><br/><a href=""> >Go back
></a>
><hr/></font>
>
> There error information is as follows:
><p>
><strong>SQL STATE</strong>: #cfcatch.SQLState#<br/><strong>NATIVE
>ERROR CODE</strong>:
>#cfcatch.NativeErrorCode#<br/><strong>type</strong>:
>#cfcatch.Type#<br/><strong>message</strong>:
>#cfcatch.Message#<br/><strong>TAG CONTENT</strong>:
> <ul>
> <cfif arrayLen(cfcatch.tagcontext)>
> <cfloop index="a" from="1" to="#arrayLen(cfcatch.tagcontext)#">
> <cfset CURRENT_TAG_STACK = #cfcatch.tagcontext[A]#>
> <li><strong>#CURRENT_TAG_STACK["ID"]#</strong>
>(#CURRENT_TAG_STACK["LINE"]#, #CURRENT_TAG_STACK["COLUMN"]#)
>#CURRENT_TAG_STACK["template"]#</li>
> </cfloop>
> <cfelse>
>The tag stack is empty (it might have been disabled in the Coldfusion
>Administrator)<br/><br/>
> </cfif>
> </ul><strong>DETAILS</strong>
> <form>
> <textarea cols="50" rows="1"
>name="detail">#HTMLeditFormat(cfcatch.Detail)#</textarea>
> </form>
>
></div>
></cfoutput>
></cfcatch></cftry><!--- after db insert, send to thank you page --->
> <cflocation url="" addtoken="no">
><cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="no">
>
>Cheers
>Mike Kear
>Windsor, NSW, Australia
>AFP Webworks
>http://afpwebworks.com
>.com,.net,.org domains from AUD$20/Year
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 06:03:31 -0400
>Subject: Re: cfsilent tag
>To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>ok, say i have this page (see code below)
>what would be all the ways to optimize it?
>sorry the formatting got jacked when i pasted
>
>[snip]
>--
>
>
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