Invalid Nested CFOUTPUT

Question

I am reading from a table that contains a list of country
names, and I am using it as as a dropdown. Here is what I have :
<cfquery datasource="intltransquote" name="getcntry">
SELECT * FROM country
order by cntryname
</cfquery>
<tr>
<td valign=top><font
color="red">*</font>Country:</td>
<td><select name="tocntry">
<option selected value="">Scroll down to select
country</option>
<cfoutput query="getcntry">
<option
value="#getcntry.cntryname#">#getcntry.cntryname#</option>
</cfoutput>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
After I submit the form, I redisplay all the informational.
For the dropdown, I display what was originally selected, then want
to have the list available again if they want to change it. So the
first item in the list should be the selected value and the rest of
the list should follow. This is what I have :
<tr>
<td valign=top><font
color="red">*</font>Country:</td>
<td><select name="tocntry">
<option selected
value="#session.tocntry#">#session.tocntry#"</option>
<cfoutput query="getcntry">
<option
value="#getcntry.cntryname#">#getcntry.cntryname#</option>
</cfoutput>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
However, I get an error about invalid nested cfoutput. Here
is the error message :
Error Occurred While Processing Request
Invalid tag nesting configuration.
A query driven CFOUTPUT tag is nested inside a CFOUTPUT tag
that also has a QUERY= attribute. This is not allowed. Nesting
these tags implies that you want to use grouped processing.
However, only the top-level tag can specify the query that drives
the processing.
How do I correct this ?

Answer 1

Yep, you cannot nest cfoutput except for gruop processing
queries.
You can do something like
<cfoutput>
html.. cf vars..
<tr>
<td valign=top><font
color="red">*</font>Country:</td>
<td><select name="tocntry">
<option selected value="">Scroll down to select
country</option>
</cfoutput>
<cfoutput query="query">
<option
value="#getcntry.cntryname#">#getcntry.cntryname#</option>
</cfoutput>
<cfoutput>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
</cfoutput>