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Lorem ipsum is a standard piece of meaningless pseudo-Latin text used to fill in text layouts when the actual text is not available.

The developer or the designer needs Lorem ipsum to maintain a quick and eye attractive dummy text to fill spaces supposed to be textual containers.

The following is an example of what is Lorem ipsum text:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, movet nihil laoreet eos te, ad sit modo tale quaerendum. Eu pro alienum voluptatibus. Vis fierent accusamus ut, usu an aeterno erroribus instructior, ei principes disputationi vis. Vis ei labore mandamus. Eu adhuc posidonium duo, ex vim viris mollis. Sea id tollit vidisse scripta, sea ea animal suscipit.

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is there any lorem ipsum generator in c#?

I'm looking for a c# generator which can generate random words, sentences, paragraphs given by a number of words / paragraphs and certain syntax such as Address, numbers, postal code / zip code, country, phone numbers, email address.
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How to get random text from lorem Ipsum in PHP?

I want the random text from Lorem Ipsum so I can use it when generating webpages. I can't find any PHP functions that does this and I'm wondering if there's any publicly available libraries or APIs on sites that could be used to get some random…
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Offline lorem ipsum generator

What would be a good offline alternative of the online Lipsum generator? It's frustrating when I'm not online and need some placeholder text for testing purpose. A CLI utility would be ideal, so that I can tailor the output to fit my needs.
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Markdown Lorem Ipsum generator?

There are dozens of html/text Lorem ipsum generators around; However something I haven't found which I find strange with the prevalence of Markdown online is a Markdown Lorem Ipsum generator. Does anyone know of one online somewhere or of any reason…
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Looking for an "Acid test" visual HTML page

I'm looking for an HTML page that has an instance of every possible visual element on it: li's with every bullet type, every text formatting option, background-images with various alignments, css drop-shadows, css gradients, etc, etc... Anyone know…
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Emmet coding lorem ipsum, not starting with lorem

Well I just started with emmet scripting/coding. So I found out you can easily generate lorem ipsum div>lorem20 Only problem I am having I am using lots of lorem ipsum and every thing on the page starts with lorem ipsum. I tried to look if there is…
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Get new lorem picsum on button click

I write this line of javascript multiple times(on a button click). The problem is that i get a random image first time and then it doesn't change anymore. Any help, please? document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].style.backgroundImage =…
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Lorem shortcut on Visual Studio 2013 not working

I saw some people on internet saying that if you type "lorem" in the view of ASP.NET, and then hit TAB, then it will be generated a "Lorem Ipsum" with 30 words. I think its great, but I can't make it happen! What am I doing wrong?
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How to get lorem ipsum to instantiate on multiple lines instead of 1 in VS Code?

In VS Code if I type "lorem" and then press enter it will generate a paragraph of lorem ipsum. The only problem is that the paragraph comes out as one very long line of text as opposed to several lines in the text editor. Is there a setting I can…
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Mock Object Data

I'd like to mock up object data, not the objects themselves. In other words, I would like to generate a collection of n objects and pass it into a function which generates random data strings and numbers. Is there anything to do this? Think of it…
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Can the graphical layout editor show placeholder images and text?

When adding TextViews and ImageViews to my layouts that will be populated dynamically at runtime, I often add placeholder text and images so I can preview a realistic layout. Can the layout editor do this for me without requiring me to explicitly…
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How to ignore lorem ipsum text from spell checker in WebStorm?

I'm using Lorem ipsum dummy text in the development stage of my React + Redux web app, but the spell checker is making a ton of distracting underlines under the dummy text and its pretty distracting and irritating to look at while I'm working. Does…
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Lorem Ipsum in Sublime Text 2

For some reason I can't seem to figure out, the snippets I am trying to use from the "Placeholders" package aren't working. As an example, according to the tab trigger for the snippet from Placeholders, when I type "lorem5", I should get several…
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Why does output of faker::lorem produce dashes at the beginning of the string?

Using faker gem with rails to generate some fake data. When I use faker::lorem the output includes dashes in front of the string. namespace :db do desc "Fill database with sample data" task populate: :environment do 7.times do |l| line…
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Generate custom number of lorem ipsum words in HTML

With lorem + TAB I am able to generate some random words. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmodtempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,quis nostrud exercitation ullamco…
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