What structure type do I use for HTML content (MySQL)

Question

I want to put a minified string of HTML into a database row - bare in mind it could be pretty large string, what kind of structure type do I use out of the following:

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Answer 1

I would use TEXT. What are the options you were thinking about?

Answer 2

I think that tinytext is ok if you page is not too long ! ?

Answer 3

Text. Which one of them depends on the size of the HTML content you're planing to store

Answer 4

LONGTEXT is probably excessive -- it allows data sizes up to 4GB.

MEDIUMTEXT allows 16MB.

TEXT allows 64KB.

TINYTEXT allows only 255 characters.

Very few HTML documents are going to be 64KB in size, so a TEXT ought to be suitable for you. If you really want to be safe, go for a MEDIUMTEXT.

Reference: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-type-overview.html