thanks, that is what I thought. I have a client that wanted optimization; when I went to his source pages they were blank. I wanted to make sure source pages were the same no matter how the site was created. Thanks again.
Coldfusion sometimes creates a lot of white space. When viewing the source via a browser be sure to scroll down.
Yes, ColdFusion it primarily tag based. So, you should see a mix of regular html surrounded by ColdFusion Tags/Functions that serve up the dynamic areas of the site.
"ColdFusion doesn't produce whitespace, programmers do." Yeah, semantics, I know. But seriously, there are bazillions of ways to avoid it, such as: <cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="true" /> -- or -- <cfprocessingdirective suppresswhitespace="true" /> Code (markup): Just be sure to put <cfoutput>...</cfoutput> around anything you're writing where you've turned on enablecfoutputonly. As for source files, you should see .cfm files on the server and in the browser you'll see www.yadda.com/somedir/index.cfm. The .cfm extension tells you what file you're looking at (aside from frameworks, more on that later), and /somedir tells you which directory to look in off the webroot. In the browser all you'll see is HTML, but in the .cfm file as viewed via FTP in a text editor you'll see CFML. Example, in an imaginary index.cfm file: <h1>The current date is:</h1> <p> <cfoutput>#dateFormat(now(),"mm/dd/yyyy")#<cfoutput> </p> Code (markup): In the browser you'd see: The current date is: 05/05/2006 HTH, J
Even with those directives it still creates the white space for me. I've tried everything and work with several versions of coldfusion. The good news is that it does not effect SEO at all.
you can also place a <cfsilent> around your code in the Application.CFM (Which is generally the cause of the Whitespace in an html document...