Building Slider Bar Controls; Cfslider Form Variable; Building Text Entry Boxes - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 4.5-DEVELOPING WEB Develop Manual

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Building Slider Bar Controls

You can use the CFSLIDER control to create a slider control and define a wide range of
formatting options for slider label text, , colors for the groove in which the slider knob
moves, label font name, size, boldface, italics, and color, as well as slider scale
increments, range, positioning, and behavior.
As with CFTREE and CFGRID, input valication can be serviced with a JavaScript
specified in the ONVALIDATE attribute.
To create a slider control:
1. Create a new file in Studio.
2. Modify the file so that it appears a follows:
<CFFORM NAME="Form1" ACTION="submit.cfm"
</CFFORM>
3. Save the file as

CFSLIDER form variable

The value of the form variable passed from a CFSLIDER control to a ColdFusion
application page is determined by the position of the slider on the scale. The form
variable is passed as:
slider_name=slider_value
In the earlier example, the form variable would have been passed as:
myslider=slider_value

Building Text Entry Boxes

The CFTEXTINPUT tag is similar to the HTML INPUT=text tag. With CFTEXTINPUT,
however, you can also specify font and alignment options, as well as enable input
METHOD="Post">
<CFSLIDER NAME="myslider"
GROOVECOLOR="black"
BGCOLOR="white"
TEXTCOLOR="black"
FONT="Trebuchet MS"
BOLD="yes"
RANGE="0,1000"
SCALE="10"
VALUE="640"
FONTSIZE="24"
LABEL="Slider %value%"
WIDTH="400">
and view it in your browser.
slider.cfm
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