HTML tags in mysql text field

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Published on 2010-03-15T18:56:09Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 18:59 UTC
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I'm creating a database with what I anticipate will be a long (perhaps several paragraphs for some tuples) attribute. I'm assigning it text instead of varchar. I have two questions:

  1. Should I give a maximum value for the text field? Is this necessary? Is it useful?
  2. Since the contents of this field will be displayed on a website in HTML, do I need to include paragraph tags for paragraph formatting when I enter records into mysql?

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