Chapter 49. Using XForms

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What’s Wrong with HTML Forms?

When programming for the Web, I frequently find myself doing the same things over and over: creating a form that matches my database, preloading the fields in the form from a record, and writing the JavaScript to make my particular application work. With the help of <cfform> and some custom tags that implement cool behavior such as date pickers and pseudo-combo boxes, I can eventually get my forms to work the way I want them to, but I find myself developing the same code again and again in each new application.

In addition, ...

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