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About ColdFusion

Allaire ColdFusion is another way to serve pages dynamically. When a browser requests a ColdFusion page from a server, the server passes the page to the ColdFusion Server software, which interprets the scripts on the page and sends the resulting HTML to the requesting browser. (The browser receives only HTML, not ColdFusion code.) For more information on ColdFusion, see the ColdFusion product page, as described in HTML and Web technologies resources.

Dreamweaver recognizes about fifty ColdFusion tags; see the ColdFusion.xml file in the Configuration/ThirdPartyTags folder for details. If View > Invisible Elements is selected, and Server Markup Tags is selected in Invisible Elements preferences, Dreamweaver displays a ColdFusion icon in the Document window's Design view to mark the location of ColdFusion tags for which render_contents is set to "false" (in ColdFusion.xml). Otherwise, Dreamweaver does not display anything to mark the code's location. For more information about invisible elements, see About invisible elements.