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cfimport

You can use the cfimport tag to import either of the following:

• All CFML pages in a directory, as a tag custom tag library.
• A Java Server Page (JSP) tag library. A JSP tag library is a packaged set of tag handlers that conform to the JSP 1.1 tag extension API.

Syntax

<cfimport>

Attribute Reference

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
taglib	string	No		Tag library URI. The path must be relative to the web root (and start with /), the current page location, or a directory specified in the Administrator CFML mappings page. A directory in which custom CFML tags are stored. In this case, all the cfm pages in this directory are treated as custom tags in a tag library. A path to a JAR in a web-application; for example, “/WEB-INF/lib/sometags.jar” A path to a tag library descriptor; for example, “/sometags.tld” Note: You must put JSP custom tag libraries in the /WEB-IN/lib directory. This limitation does not apply to CFML pages.
prefix	string	No		Prefix by which to access the imported custom CFML tags JSP tags. If you import a CFML custom tag directory and specify an empty value, “”, for this attribute, you can call the custom tags without using a prefix. You must specify and use a prefix for a JSP tag library.
path	string	No		path of CFC to be imported

Tag Syntax - CFML Custom Tags with Prefix

Import custom tags and include one using the prefix:tagName syntax.

<cfimport taglib="/relative/path/customTags" prefix="tags"/>

<tags:myCustomTag></tags:myCustomTag>

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