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title: "What is CFAbort?"  
description: "What is CFAbort?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2011-05-17  
updated: 2020-09-17  
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category: "cold fusion"  
tags: ["cold fusion"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is CFAbort?

Stops the processing of a ColdFusion page at the tag location.\
ColdFusion returns to the user or calling tag everything that was processed before the cfabort tag.\
You can optionally specify an error message to display using showError attribute. \
The tag is often used with conditional logic to stop processing a page when a condition occurs.

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

Stops the processing of a ColdFusion page at the tag location.\
ColdFusion returns to the user or calling tag everything that was processed before the cfabort tag.\
You can optionally specify an error message to display using showError attribute. \
The tag is often used with conditional logic to stop processing a page when a condition occurs.


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