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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

Argument Reference

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description	Values
string	string	Yes		A string, or a variable that contains one
encodeFor	string	No		CF2016+ Lucee5.1.0.8+ Wraps the result with an encodeFor function.	/Users/garethedwards/development/github/cfdocs/docs/functions/writeoutput.md	dn

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

CF2016+ 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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