Resetting your page output Buffer

Updated August 22, 2025, First Published March 16, 2005 by Pete Freitag

I just figured out a simple way of resetting the output stream in a coldfusion template using the JspWriter obtained from the PageContext:

You won't see any content above the line below.

<cfset GetPageContext().getOut().clearBuffer()>

But you will see this content down here.

Update 2025: here's a more standard way to do it in CFML:

<cfcontent reset="true">