CFDUMP working sporadically

I use the CFDUMP tag somewhat frequently in my programming. Recently something odd has started happening. The dump is just not working 100%. Meaning, sometimes the dump is formatted in that nice colorful table so that everything is easy to see. Other times while executing the exact same code the dump only dumps to straight text.

I am running CFMX 6.1 on Redhat 9 with Apache. Has anyone else experienced this or have any suggestions on how to fix the problem? Thanks in advance.

The CSS style for the CFDUMP tag is conflicting with the CSS style that you are using on your web page. If there are problems with your CSS or if you are only sending part of a page to the browser before the dump output, this can happen. You'll either have to fix the problem with your CSS or suppress the CSS in the output stream.

Basically, it's not a problem with CFDUMP but in the way or context in which you are using it.

The only thing is I am not using any CSS on my page however.

Hmmm, then that is pretty odd. Like I said, I've seen this happen but only when styles conflict. Next time it happens, do view of the page source and sift through it to confirm that nothing is secretly inserting a style in there somewhere.

Thaks for the suggestions Kiteless. Unfortunetly, I just can't figure this one out.

Better late than never...

Check to make sure that your cfdump tag is closed properly. I was getting text output when I used <cfdump var="#variables#"> instead of <cfdump var="#variables#"/>.

I did see some reference to not closing cfdump within cfsavecontent mucking up all future cfdump calls. I think Macromedia have this down as a bug.

Another annoyance which I found was that zone alarm was interfering with the output generated by coldfusion debug. I wasn't able to get the debug popup window or output within page without telling zonealarm to allow internet explorer to use other programs while connected to the net. You can set this under program control in Zone Alarm Pro. Funny thing was that this was happening sporadically. By the way I was debugging a remote server.

Cheers
Gus