11.13 General-Purpose Fields ↑
11.13.8 String
This is the default field type, if no other type is assigned or implied.
On the Edit tab, such a field appears as a single line of text.
On the Display tab, such a field is displayed without any special formatting.
For longer text fields, see the longtext field type.
For text fields likely to have recurring values, see the Combo field type.