Including or excluding range attribute in dynamically generate form field - coldfusion

Question

I am using a query to dynamically create form fields, not all fields use the range attribute.
When using the cfif statement to include or exclude the range attribute I get an error:
See code below:
<cfoutput>
<input type="hidden" name="question_ids" id="question_ids" value="#valueList(rsQuestions.question_id)#">
</cfoutput>
<cfoutput query="rsQuestions" group="modid">
<table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" bgcolor="##0E777A" >
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><span class="style1">#rsQuestions.ModName#</span></td>
</tr>
<cfoutput>
<tr>
<td width="700" bgcolor="##FFFFFF">#rsQuestions.question#</td>
<td width="200" bgcolor="##FFFFFF">
<cfif rsQuestions.question_type_id eq 1>
<cfinput type="text" name="answer_#rsQuestions.question_id#"
message="#rsQuestions.Message#"
tooltip="#rsQuestions.Tooltip#"
validate="#rsQuestions.Validate#"
<cfif #rsQuestions.Range# neq "">
range = "#rsQuestions.Range#"
</cfif>
required="#rsQuestions.mandatory#"
size="#rsQuestions.Size#">
<cfelseif rsQuestions.question_type_id eq 2>
<cfquery name="rsOptions" datasource="dsTest">
SELECT option_id, [option], question_id
FROM questionnaire_question_options
WHERE (question_id = #rsQuestions.question_id#)
</cfquery>
<cfselect enabled="yes"
name="answer_#rsQuestions.question_id#"
multiple="no"
query="rsOptions"
value="option"
display="option">
</cfselect>
</cfif>
</td>
</tr>
</cfoutput>
</table>
</cfoutput>
How can I structure the above statement to include or exclude the 'range' attribute?

Answer 1

As user8675309 (Jenny?) mentioned, you cannot nest <cfif> tags inside another CF tag. So you need to separate those statements out. Here is one way you could do that:
....
<cfif rsQuestions.question_type_id eq 1>
<cfif rsQuestions.Range neq "">
<cfinput type="text" name="answer_#rsQuestions.question_id#"
message="#rsQuestions.Message#"
tooltip="#rsQuestions.Tooltip#"
validate="#rsQuestions.Validate#"
range="#rsQuestions.Range#"
required="#rsQuestions.mandatory#"
size="#rsQuestions.Size#">
<cfelse>
<cfinput type="text" name="answer_#rsQuestions.question_id#"
message="#rsQuestions.Message#"
tooltip="#rsQuestions.Tooltip#"
validate="#rsQuestions.Validate#"
required="#rsQuestions.mandatory#"
size="#rsQuestions.Size#">
</cfif>
<cfelseif rsQuestions.question_type_id eq 2>
....

Answer 2

As mentioned, you can't nest a cfif (or any CF tag) inside another CF tag.
One thing you can do if you really need dynamic attributes is to use the "attributeCollection" attribute.
(ColdFusion 8 or higher.)
Something like:
<cfset inputAttr=structNew()>
<cfset inputAttr.type="text">
<cfset inputAttr.name="answer_#rsQuestions.question_id#">
<cfset inputAttr.message="#rsQuestions.Message#">
<cfset inputAttr.tooltip="#rsQuestions.Tooltip#">
<cfset inputAttr.validate="#rsQuestions.Validate#">
<cfif rsQuestions.Range neq "">
<cfset inputAttr.range = "#rsQuestions.Range#">
</cfif>
<cfset inputAttr.required="#rsQuestions.mandatory#">
<cfset inputAttr.size="#rsQuestions.Size#">
<cfinput attributecollection="#inputAttr#">