ColdFusion: Best way to use HTMLEditFormat for all form input fields

Question

I have form uses HTMLEditFormat call for every single input fields. is there any way so I can call HTMLEditFormat function only once and it will take care of all input fields instead of adding it to every single field?

Answer 1

The following will accomplish your goal, but like has been pointed out in the comments section, this may not be your best option.

<cfset cleanForm = {}>
<cfloop list="#form.fieldnames#" index="i">
  <cfset cleanForm[i] = HTMLEditFormat(form[i])>
</cfloop>

Instead of referencing form.firstName you would now reference cleanForm.firstName

Answer 2

No, you have to apply the HTMLEditFormat() function against each form value separately. But if you're currently writing out a line of code for each form field to do that:

cleanFormData.firstName= HTMLEditFormat(form.firstName)
cleanFormData.lastName= HTMLEditFormat(form.lastName)

You can revise your code to take advantage of the fact that all of those form values are in the form scope - which is essentially a ColdFusion struct variable - and you can write code that loops through the struct and applies HTMLEditFormat() against the form value in the current iteration.