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         <td valign="top" class="name">CFSILENT</td>
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Suppresses output produced by CFML within a tag's scope. 
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Data output tags, Page processing tags
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    <td valign="top" colspan="2" class="syntax"><span class="title">Syntax</span><pre>&lt;cfsilent&gt;
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&lt;/cfsilent&gt; 
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    <td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><span class="title">See also</span>
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cfcache, cfflush, cfheader, cfhtmlhead, cfinclude, cfsetting; Chapter&#160;9, "Writing and Calling User-Defined Functions," in ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide
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This tag requires an end tag.
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    <td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><span class="title">Example</span><pre>&lt;h3&gt;cfsilent&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;cfsilent&gt;
  &lt;cfset a = 100&gt;
  &lt;cfset b = 99&gt;
  &lt;cfset c = b-a&gt;
  &lt;cfoutput&gt;Inside cfsilent block&lt;br&gt;
  b-a = #c#&lt;/cfoutput&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/cfsilent&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Even information within cfoutput tags does not display within a 
cfsilent block.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;cfoutput&gt;
    b-a = #c#
&lt;/cfoutput&gt;
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