<cfif> </cfif>

[PackinDaMAC]

I have an <input type="text" name="pnum">

I want to the color of my text area to change if pnum is left blank....

I am cloudy on how i should get this done and was wondering if i could get some advice

i thought it should work like

<cfif IsDefined("pnum")>

[Guest]

<CFIF Len(pnum) IS 0>

[PackinDaMAC]

Ok so that would check the length of the string so to change the color

<cfif Len(pnum) IS 0>
<cfset pnum = "FFFFF">
</cfif>

Is that how it would work??? or am i missing something???

[PackinDaMAC]

<cfif IsDefined("pnum")>
<cfif Len(pnum) IS 0>
<cfset bgcolor = "FFFFF">
</cfif>

</cfif>
Would this be correct or am i not using the right logic???

[drforbin1970]

What exactly do you mean by 'left blank'? When the form is loaded? When submit is clicked? After some validation? Please be more specific.

[PackinDaMAC]

When the form loads on to the screen there are some that phone numbers are left blank and those phone numbers that are blank i want that area in my table to change color???? Is this not practical using cfml????

[drforbin1970]

<input type="text" name="pnum" style="background-color: <cfif Trim(pnum) IS "">Black<cfelse>White</cfif>" >

[PackinDaMAC]

Here is how i did it...My page loads but it does not change the color though....What am I missing???
<td align="center" class="bottomLine" ><input style="border:0; background-color:transparent" type="text" name="pnum#cnt#" value="#res.phone#" maxlength="13" size="10" style="background-color:<cfif Len(pnum) IS 0>Yellow</cfif>"></td>

[Newsgroup_User · Accepted solution]

try it this way

<td align="center" class="bottomLine" ><input style="border:0;<cfif
Len(pnum) IS 0> background-color:Yellow;</cfif>" type="text"
name="pnum#cnt#" value="#res.phone#" maxlength="13" size="10"></td>



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"PackinDaMAC" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:e6p9on$1e5$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Here is how i did it...My page loads but it does not change the color
> though....What am I missing???
> <td align="center" class="bottomLine" ><input style="border:0;
> background-color:transparent" type="text" name="pnum#cnt#"
> value="#res.phone#"
> maxlength="13" size="10" style="background-color:<cfif Len(pnum) IS
> 0>Yellow</cfif>"></td>
>

[JaredJBlackburn]

I wonder if something like this isn't better handled by JavaScript.

If you user CF to set the textbox's color, then it only changes on pageload. For instance, it could be blank when the page loads initially, but then the user may enter something but the textbox's color won't change until the next pageload.

If, on the other hand, you use Javascript in the textbox's onChange event to evaluate the textbox's status (blank or not) and then update the textbox's color, then the color will change whenever the user edits the textbox.