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May 06, 2005

ParagraphFormat is not XHTML Safe

coldfusion

I just noticed that the ParagraphFormat tag is not XHTML safe. It inserts unclosed <P> tags for line breaks. I posted a comment on the live docs about this, so hopefully they will add an optional argument to have it generate XHTML output. Here's a function you can use in the meantime:

<cffunction name="XHTMLParagraphFormat" returntype="string" output="false">
	<cfargument name="str" required="true" type="string">
	<cfreturn REReplace(arguments.str, "\r+\n\r+\n", "<br /><br />", "ALL")>
</cffunction>

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On 05/06/2005 at 5:22:15 PM MDT Steve Ray wrote:
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There's also an XHTMLParagraphFormat UDF on CFLib.org.

On 05/06/2005 at 6:35:38 PM MDT Raymond Camden wrote:
2
There is a cflib function for this too. :)

On 02/03/2006 at 5:41:14 PM MST Brian G wrote:
3
The function on cflib is not exactly ideal. It will convert blank lines into empty &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; tags which is not exactly correct.

I changed the code from a replace to a reReplaceNoCase with the following regexp to do the right thing (from a semantic XHTML point of view):

reReplaceNoCase(string, "(#Chr(13)##Chr(10)#)+", ...)

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