writeOutput Code Examples and CFML Documentation

writeOutput

Appends text to the page-output stream.
This function writes to the page-output stream regardless of
conditions established by the cfsetting tag.

writeOutput(string) → returns boolean

Argument Reference

A string, or a variable that contains one

CF 2016+ Lucee 5.1.0.8+ Wraps the result with an encodeFor function.

Values:

Examples

Sample code invoking the writeOutput function

greeting = "Hello World";
writeOutput(greeting);

CF 2016+ Passing in html to the encodeFor argument wraps the result with a call to encodeForHTML.

name = "Pete";
writeOutput("Hello " & name, "html");

Expected Result: Hello Pete

writeOutput