Forgetting to cfimport tag libraries?

[Rob Rohan]

Being the über noob I am with FarCry, I tend to forget import the taglibs for things quite often.  Depending on how much coffee I've had, or how late in the day it is, it can take quite a while before I figure out why my grid:col doesn't seem to be working correctly.

The main problem is that there is no way to throw an error if the cfimport tag is missing because <skin:buildLink> is valid XML and if you forget the import:

<cfimport taglib="/farcry/core/tags/webskin" prefix="skin" />

CF never processes the tag so there is no way to catch or throw an error on the server side... however, since the <skin:build> type tags will make it all the way to the browser, we can style the tag in the browser to alert the problem.

I threw together a quick CSS file that you can include into your project style sheet that will draw attention to the error.  Just add this to your site style sheet:

@import url('http://robrohan.com/farcrystuff/missingTag.css');

Or download the css file and put it where you want.   That will style any FarCry taglib with block, red so you can spot the mistake right off.

[Sean Coyne]

very nice. very helpful

[Michael Sharman]

That's a brilliantly simple solution Rob.

I love it :)