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Footer in a cfdiv

I am developing an application that uses a single index.cfm page to populate three (so far) cfdiv areas; on for the header, one form the cfmenu (on the left side) and on for content. I use ColdFusion.navigate to update the content cfdiv which has a variable height depending on the content. I would like to "include" a footer at the bottom of the content cfdiv without having to update all of my pages, so if there was some way to append the footer (basically a copyright notice) dynamically at the bottom of the content that would be cool. right now i'm just putting the copyright notice (footer) at the bottom of my menu on the left side which is ok but not ideal, especially if I wanted more than a copyright notice in the footer.

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Permalink Reply by Stephen "Cutter" Blades on February 24, 2008 at 12:49am: You would need to nest a cflayout within your cfdiv. Define two areas, 'main' and 'footer', and use the ColdFusion.navigate functions to change the content of the 'main' window, while maintaining your copyright in your 'footer' panel. It's like using an Ajax version of frames, without frames.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Michael White on February 24, 2008 at 1:35pm: Thank you Stephen, that sounds right. I'll give it a shot. so the syntax might be something like ColdFusion.navigate('newpage.cfm','content.main') or ColdFusion.navigate('siteFooter.cfm','content.footer')?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Stephen "Cutter" Blades on February 25, 2008 at 11:31am: Sounds about right. I rapid prototype with CF 8 Ajax, then finalize using straight Ext, so I always have to lookup the syntax;) And please, call me Cutter. Glad I could help...; ▶ Reply to This