<cfabort>

Stops processing of a page at the tag location. CFML returns everything that was processed before the cfabort tag. The cfabort tag is often used with conditional logic to stop processing a page when a condition occurs.

This tag cannot have a body.

This tag is also supported within <cfscript>

<cfabort showerror=string type=string >
Attribute Description
showerror
string, optional

The error to display when cfabort executes. The error message displays in the standard CFML error page.
type
string, optional

Define the abort type.

Allowed Values:

  • request (default): abort the entire request
  • page: abort the current page execution

Examples

<cfset v = 3>
<cfloop from="1" to="4" index="c">
    <cfif c is 2>
        aborted
        <cfabort>
    <cfelse>
        <cfset v = v + 1>
    </cfif>
    <cfoutput>c: #c#, v: #v#<br></cfoutput>
</cfloop>
<hr>
<cfoutput>c: #c#, v: #v#</cfoutput>
<br>
not aborted

See also