Need Data Entry Help " causing issues in data entry

Question

What's the syntax for telling a insert/update query to add
information to the database so that " and ' don't affect the
import? Meaning if I add 30.6" long in diameter it only will pull
out 30.6. Is this a data entry or pull error and how can I fix
it?

Answer 1

when you insert/update the data in your db use
<cfqueryparam> tag - it
will automatically escape all necessary characters.
at output, i assume you are displaying the data in a text
input form
field, the problem is not with cf or your data, but with the
basic html:
<input type="text"
value="#some-cf-variable-with-double-quotes#">
when the value of cf var contains double quotation marks, the
rendered
html will look like:
<input type="text" value="0.36" in diameter">
see where the problem is? the value displayed in the field
will be just
0.36, and the browser will ignore the rest of the code.
cf has built-in functions to work around this, like
xmlformat() or
htmleditformat()
Azadi Saryev
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