Lucee Tag Reference

<cftimer>

Displays execution time for a specified section of CFML code. Lucee displays the timing information along with any output produced by the timed code.

Body

This tag must have a body.

Example

<cftimer
[label=string]
[type=string]
[unit=string]
[variable=string]>
</cftimer>
This tag is also supported within cfscript
<cfscript>
timer
[label=string]
[type=string]
[unit=string]
[variable=string] {
[...]
}
</cfscript>

Attributes

The attributes for this tag are fixed. Except for the following attributes no other attributes are allowed.
Name Type Required Description
label string No Label to display with timing information.
Default: " " 
type string No - inline: displays timing information inline, following the
resulting HTML.
  • outline: displays timing information and also displays a line
    around the output produced by the timed code. The browser
    must support the FIELDSET tag to display the outline.
  • comment: displays timing information in an HTML comment
    in the format . The default label
    is cftimer.
  • debug: displays timing information in the debug output
    under the heading CFTimer Times.
  • console: displays timing information in the console output. The default label is CFTimer.
    Default: debug 
    		•
    unit string No Base unit for the timing, valid values are:
  • nano: nano seconds
  • micro : micro seconds
  • milli: milli seconds (default)
  • second: seconds 
    		•
    variable string No The name of the variable in which to save the timer execution time into.