Fields/Field types/Text based

Email

This article explains how to create & work with an Email field.

Email field is text based field custom-built for storing E-mail IDs. It is a special type of Single line text field with

Optional validation for Email ID
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Create an `Email` field

Click on + icon to the right of Fields header
On the dropdown modal, enter the field name (Optional).
Select the field type as Email from the dropdown.
Enable validation by toggling the Validate Email checkbox (Optional).
Set default value for the field (Optional).
Click on Save Field button.

Specify default value without quotes.
Validation only ensures that the value entered is a valid email ID. It does not check if the email ID exists.

Similar text based fields

Following are the other text based fields available in NocoDB, custom-built for specific use cases.

Rich text

This article explains how to create & work with a Rich text field.

Phone Number

This article explains how to create & work with a Phone number field.