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dateSelect()

Description

Builds and returns a string containing three select form controls for a date based on the supplied objectName and property.

Function Syntax

dateSelect([ objectName, property, order, separator, startYear, endYear, monthDisplay, includeBlank, label, labelPlacement, prepend, append, prependToLabel, appendToLabel, errorElement ])

Parameters

Parameter Type Required Default Description
objectName any No The variable name of the object to build the form control for.
property string No The name of the property to use in the form control.
order string No month,day,year Use to change the order of or exclude date select tags.
separator string No Use to change the character that is displayed between the date select tags.
startYear numeric No 2004 First year in select list.
endYear numeric No 2014 Last year in select list.
monthDisplay string No names Pass in names, numbers or abbreviations to control display.
includeBlank any No false Whether to include a blank option in the select form control. Pass true to include a blank line or a string that should represent what display text should appear for the empty value (for example, "- Select One -").
label string No The label text to use in the form control.
labelPlacement string No around Whether to place the label before, after, or wrapped around the form control.
prepend string No String to prepend to the form control. Useful to wrap the form control around HTML tags.
append string No String to append to the form control. Useful to wrap the form control around HTML tags.
prependToLabel string No String to prepend to the form control's label. Useful to wrap the form control around HTML tags.
appendToLabel string No String to append to the form control's label. Useful to wrap the form control around HTML tags.
errorElement string No span HTML tag to wrap the form control with when the object contains errors.

Examples

<!--- view code --->
<cfoutput>
<p>#dateSelect(objectName="user", property="dateOfBirth")#</p>
</cfoutput>