title: What's the standard way to store formatted content in the database?
body: <p>I have an application that involves storing and retrieving lots of user-formatted content using a WYSIWYG html editor. Kind of like how SO saves formatted questions and answers.</p>
  
  <p>What's the standard approach to do this?</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong></p>
  
  <p>Just to clarify: I am not asking about the data type to store in the DB. Rather I am concerned about storing chunks of html tags with style information in the DB.</p>