In  and , Lorem ipsum is a  commonly used to demonstrate the visual form of a document or a typeface without relying on meaningful content. Lorem ipsum may be used as a placeholder before final  is available. It is also used to temporarily replace text in a process called , which allows designers to consider the form of a webpage or publication, without the meaning of the text influencing the design.

Lorem ipsum is typically a corrupted version of ”, a 1st century BC text by the  statesman and philosopher , with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical and improper.

Versions of the Lorem ipsum text have been used in  at least since the 1960s, when it was popularized by advertisements for  transfer sheets. Lorem ipsum was introduced to the digital world in the mid-1980s, when  employed it in graphic and word-processing templates for its desktop publishing program . Other popular , including  and, have since adopted Lorem ipsum, as have many packages web content managers such as  and  and libraries such as Semantic UI.