CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
Take a text and use the carriage return as a delimiter list to generate an html list (<ul>). Each line become an element of the list (<li>).

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfsavecontent variable="text">
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
</cfsavecontent>

<cfoutput>#paragraphToList(text)#</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

/**
 * Convert a text with many lines into a html list.
 * 
 * @param text      Text to format. (Required)
 * @return Returns a string. 
 * @author Tony Monast (merkel_@hotmail.com) 
 * @version 1, May 10, 2005 
 */
function paragraphToList(text) { 
    var thelist = "";
    var i = 1;
    text = trim(text);
    for(i=1; i lte listLen(text,chr(13));i=i+1) thelist = thelist & "<li>" & ListGetAt(text,i,chr(13)) & "</li>";
    if(len(thelist) GT 0) {  
        thelist = "<ul>" & thelist & "</ul>";
        return thelist ;
    } else return "";
}