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cfprocessingdirective

Provides the following information to CFML on how to process the current page:

• Specifies whether to remove excess whitespace character from CFML generated content in the tag body.
• Identifies the character encoding (character set) of the page contents.

Syntax

<cfprocessingdirective>

Script Syntax ACF11+, Lucee, Railo 4.2+

cfprocessingdirective();

Attribute Reference

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description	Values
suppressWhitespace	boolean	No		Boolean; whether to suppress white space characters within the cfprocessingdirective block that are generated by CFML tags and often do not affect HTML appearance. Does not affect any white space in HTML code.
pageEncoding	string	No		A string literal; cannot be a variable. Identifies the character encoding of the current CFML page. This attribute affects the entire page, not just the cfprocessing tag body. The value may be enclosed in single or double quotation marks, or none. For more information on character encodings, see: www.w3.org/International/O-charset.html.	/Users/garethedwards/development/github/cfdocs/docs/tags/cfprocessingdirective.md	utf-16

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