Invalid CFML construct found

[hevychevy1996]

I recently posted that I was trying to submit an online job application to my human resources by email. I used cfmail,copy and pasted the required fields in between the tags,and changed the fields within the cfmail tags using this syntax: "value=#form.formfield"
When i test it out it gives me this error: Invalid CFML construct found
Any ideas?

 

[ecobb]

Don't you mean:

value=#form.formfield[red]#[/red]

Hope This Helps!

Ecobb
Beer Consumption Analyst

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[krisbrixon]

The syntax on the livedocs has quotes around the values:

value="#form.formfield#"

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/tags-pta.htm#wp2355015

My guess would be with out the quotes coldfusion is messing up on the subject since it might have spaces and with out the quotes it thinks the second word if an attribute.

Kris Brixon

 

[TruthInSatire]

the "value = " he is refering to is html which doesn't require quotes.

invalid construct occures when you forget to close a series like ecobb mentioned

#myValue no pound
myFunction(myValue no closing pren
<cfset myname = "Travis> no quote
<cfoutput>#myArray[1#</cfoutput> no closing bracket

stuff like that usualy results in an invalid construct error. the invalid part is the first character that shows up after the expected chacter

<cfset myVar = myFunction(myVal>
invalid construct, coldfusion was looking a the following character ">"

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