cferror

Displays a custom HTML page when an error occurs. This lets
you maintain a consistent look and feel among an application's
functional and error pages

  <cferror type="exception" template="">

 cferror(type="exception", template="");

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See Also:   cfabort   cfthrow   cftry   cfcatch   onError

Attribute Reference

type string
Required

Type of error that the custom error page handles. The type
also determines how CFML handles the error page. For
more information, see Specifying a custom error page in
Developing CFML MX Applications.

exception: a exception of the type specified by the
exception attribute.
validation: errors recognized by sever-side type
validation.
request: any encountered error.
monitor: deprecated.
Values:
  • exception
  • validation
  • request
  • monitor

template string
Required

Relative path to the custom error page.
(A CFML page was formerly called a template.)

mailto string

An E-mail address. This attribute is available on the
error page as the variable error.mailto. CFML does
not automatically send anything to this address.

exception string
Default: any

Type of exception that the tag handles:

application: application exceptions
database: database exceptions
template: CFML page exceptions
security: security exceptions
object: object exceptions
missingInclude: missing include file exceptions
expression: expression exceptions
lock: lock exceptions
custom_type: developer-defined exceptions, defined in the
cfthrow tag
any: all exception types
Values:
  • any
  • application
  • database
  • template
  • security
  • object
  • missinginclude
  • expression
  • lock
  • custom_type

Examples
Sample code using the cferror tag

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