Which variable name should I use in table settings?

Hello,

I have created a form in chronoforms in which I modified the code to allow for a large textbox with unlimited characters to be entered, like this:

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_textbox">
    <label class="cf_label" style="width: 150px;">Reason new people should join</label>
    <textarea rows="2" cols="40"></textarea>
  
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

Everything works fine when you enter the information into the form (box accepts all characters), but when you view the information in the attached table, there is no information there. I suspect that I have chosen the wrong variable type for the table (I changed it from default "varchar255" to "longtext".)

Which variable type should I use to capture a long text string? Or am I completely off base?

Thanks in advance!

Nevermind. I think my code is faulty.

Hi schult70,

Using LONGTEXT will be fine, the problem here is that your textarea has no name attribute so the input can't be identified.

<textarea name='some_name' id='some_name' rows="2" cols="40"></textarea>

Bob