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

CF4+

Lucee

BL 1.0.0+

Argument Reference

string string
Required

A string, or a variable that contains one

encodeFor string

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

Values:

html
htmlattribute
javascript
css
xml
xmlattribute
url
xpath
ldap
dn

Examples
Sample code invoking the writeOutput function

Output the literal string "Hello World"

writeOutput("Hello World");

Output the equivalent string as a variable

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

Using the encodeFor argument

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

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