Paragraph Text

Summary

The Paragraph Text field allows a user to enter text in a textarea form field. It is available under the Standard Fields section within the form editor.

Paragraph Text field as displayed in the Field Library

Paragraph Text field as displayed in the Field Library

Paragraph Text field as displayed in the Form Editor

Paragraph Text field as displayed in the Form Editor.

Common Settings

This field uses only common field settings for the General and Appearance settings. For a description of each of the common field settings, refer to this article. Below you will find description of specialty settings that are particular to this field.

General Settings

SettingDescription
Maximum CharactersEnter the maximum number of characters that this field is allowed to have.

Advanced Settings

SettingDescription
Use the Rich Text EditorCheck this option to enable the rich text editor on this field. See Notes.

Notes

If this field already contains entry data, you cannot enable the rich text editor.

Image showing Paragraph field with Rich text Editor option disabled.

Similarly, once the rich text editor is enabled, it cannot be disabled if the field contains entry data.

Image showing Paragraph field with Rich text Editor option disabled.

Merge Tags

For more information on the use of merge tags, refer to these articles.

Usage

{Field Name:2}

Modifiers

This merge tag does not have any modifiers.