Simpsum makes it easy to add reusable placeholder text to your development websites.

This project was created as a way of adding placeholder text to be added to development sites in a consistent fashion. It also aims to solve the problem of forgetting to remove or change placeholder text before deployment by allowing developers to easily find and replace the consistent tags.

Download via bower.

bower install simpsum

Include the script on your web page.

<script src="simpsum.js"></script>

Next, call the script. A sample JSON file has been included in the examples folder.

<script>
  var simpsum = new Simpsum("path_to_dummy_content.json");
</script>

Note: If using a local .json file, it will need to be served via a local web server.

To set a placeholder section in your website, create a text element and include the {{ simpsum }} tag.

<h1>{{ simpsum }}</h1>
<p>{{ simpsum }}</p>

You can also force your placeholders to have a maximum length. The example below will limit the placeholder to 20 characters.

<p>{{ simpsum(20) }}</p>

Maximum lengths can also be specified as being of a range for when you want more variance in your selected content (e.g., when simulating user supplied content)

<p>{{ simpsum(20,30) }}</p>

You can use variable tag names by specifying the desired tag in the second parameter when calling the class:

<script>
  var simpsum = new Simpsum("path_to_dummy_content.json", "text");
</script>

And the tags can be called like so (in the same fashion as described above):

<p>{{ text }}</p>
<p>{{ text(10) }}</p>
<p>{{ text(10,20) }}</p>