JohnBs personal blog

I thought i’d blogged an idea i had a few months back but it turns out i hadn’t.

Whilst working on an app i’m building i realised that i’m forever writing data driven drop down menus using most often than not the same code. Like most people i’m always looking for ways to cut out the amount of code i have to duplicate so I figured i’d create an HTML Widget CFC. Firstly, don’t preach at me that CFCs shouldn’t be used to render output. You only have to read BenF’s blog entry here to see that it’s simply not true. Why didn’t i create it as a custom tag? Again, Ben’s blog entry highlights the overlap in capabilites between Custom Tags and CFCs.

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