Cannot put <cfoutput> around a <select> statement usinga query.

[Bagger Vance]

<select name="t#this_tourn#_course_id">
<cfoutput query="get_courses">
<option value="#course_id#"> #course_name# - Par #par#</option>
</select>

Obviously, the variable 't#this_tourn#_course_id' in the <select> statement is
not getting processed because it is not enclosed in <cfoutput> tags. Since I'm
using a query for the OPTION, I don't know how to make this work. As far as I
know, I can't use a CFSELECT because it will only display one column.

There must be a fairly simple solution to this, but I am at a loss.

Thanks.

[KevinOtt]

Is there any reason <cfoutput<select name="t#this_tourn#_course_id"></cfoutput> wouldn't work?

[Bagger Vance]

Well, son of a gun - that works. I didn't think you could split tags up like
this, so I didn't even try it:

<cfoutput> <select> </cfoutput> </select>

I thought I would get a message about an ending </select> tage must have a
matching start tag, but I guess that's only for ColdFusion Tags.

Thanks!

[Stressed_Simon]

While that does work it is still bad coding practice to incorrectly nest tags.

You should do either:-

<select name="<cfoutput>t#this_tourn#_course_id</cfoutput>">
<cfoutput query="get_courses">
<option value="#course_id#"> #course_name# - Par #par#</option>
</cfoutput>
</select>

or

<cfoutput>
<select name="t#this_tourn#_course_id">
<cfloop query="get_courses">
<option value="#course_id#"> #course_name# - Par #par#</option>
</cfloop>
</select>
</cfoutput>

[Adam Cameron]

> While that does work it is still bad coding practice to incorrectly nest tags.

No, it's not because HTML is "noise" to CFML, it's not code.

> <select name="<cfoutput>t#this_tourn#_course_id</cfoutput>">

If there was a bad practice to be had regarding "nesting" HTML and CFML
tags, this would be an example of it, I reckon.

Embedding tags within one another surely is far worse than "incorrectly"
nesting them?

> <cfoutput>
> <select name="t#this_tourn#_course_id">
> <cfloop query="get_courses">
> <option value="#course_id#"> #course_name# - Par #par#</option>
> </cfloop>
> </select>
> </cfoutput>

Yeah. This is what I'd do.