QuackFuzed.com is the personal ColdFusion coding blog of Matt Quackenbush. It exists primarily as a place for the author to learn, and hopefully to assist others in learning and/or avoiding some of the same pitfalls and mistakes. (Quack certainly makes enough mistakes daily to make up for the entire ColdFusion community.)
So today I was writing up a simple little form hint with a jQuery UI dialog popup with more details on the hint. The code was actually quite simple:
This probably comes as no surprise, but it has been many years since I have written a form without the aid of cfUniForm. Today, however, I had a need to throw together a ridiculously quick and simple upload form on a project that only has this one form on it. Hardly enough to warrant adding cfUniForm into the mix. Or so it seemed.
IMPORTANT: If you have textareas in any of your forms, you will want to upgrade!
A big THANK YOU! to Marc Esher for identifying an XSS vulnerability with the plugin that cfUniForm had previously used for "expandable" textareas. Marc contacted the author of the PrettyComments jQuery plugin repeatedly in an effort to help the author resolve this issue. However, the author gave no indication that he was interested in a fix. Because of this, cfUniForm now uses Elastic for expandable textareas.
We have used XStandard for many years now, and always used a JavaScript-free setup. When Firefox 4 came out, everything stopped working; the editor content was no longer being posted back to the server.
So I was doing some "quickie" JavaScript today, using jQuery, of course. I scribbled out some code. Then I decided to change the way I was going to handle it, so I commented out little bits and changed the code. I then decided to go back to my original idea, and uncommented everything that I had previously commented out. Or so I thought.
Anyone that knows me knows that I hate doing UI work. Why? Because I suck at it. Graphics, design, and layout are definitely not among my talents. Which is why I love jQuery so much. I can write a little bit of JavaScript - very little, in fact - add a plugin or two, and voila! I have a nice looking user interface for my application.
After using a few very handy form-related jQuery plugins and integrating them into my cfUniForm library, I decided it was time I go ahead and release a plugin of my own.
The latest release of the cfUniForm custom tag library features a new jQuery plugin integration, as well as enhancements to the jQuery plugin integrations.
Dan Wilson will be presenting the cfUniForm ColdFusion tag library to the CF Meetup today (Thursday, 10/02/08) at Noon Eastern time.
cfUniForm is a ColdFusion custom tag library that generates XHTML 1.0 Strict-compliant forms for you based upon the Uni-Form markup. It also has integrated support for a number of jQuery plugins. For more information on the presentation, please visit the CF Meetup.
A week or so ago I posted about Dan Wilson's cfUniForm preso to the Hartford, CT CFUG. If you were unable to attend, no worries, as the recording is now online! View preso recording.
Do you want to make sexy, accessible, XHTML compliant forms without endless typing? Would you like to add widgets like masks, date pickers, time pickers to your applications with ease? Do you like accessible, feature-rich forms built with no muss, no fuss? Then be sure to block out your calendar on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 7:30PM (Eastern), and join the Hartford, CT CFUG as Dan Wilson presents the cfUniForm tag library and see awesome forms built in record time.
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