The data grid is critical to all sorts of development on all sorts of platforms and in all sorts of languages. ColdFusion has supported data grids since ColdFusion 2 - first a Java applet, then a Flash control, and in
ColdFusion 8 we've added an HTML data grid that can be pre-populated with data, or which can be used to display live data loaded asynchronously.
The basic pre-populated data grid functions much like the <CFGRID> of old, pass it a query and it displays the data. Here is an example (which uses the example tables that come with ColdFusion):
<cfquery name="artists" datasource="cfartgallery">
SELECT artistid, lastname, firstname, email
FROM artists
ORDER BY lastname, firstname
</cfquery>
<cfform>
<cfgrid name="artists"
format="html"
striperows="yes"
query="artists">
<cfgridcolumn name="lastname" header="Last Name" width="100"/>
<cfgridcolumn name="firstname" header="First Name" width="100"/>
<cfgridcolumn name="email" header="E-Mail" width="200"/>
</cfgrid>
</cfform>
