englipsum

Englipsum

See http://hardmath123.github.io/englipsum

The accepted Lorem Ipsum text is inherently messy. It has different character ratios and prevalent digraphs. The words are foreign to most of us, so they attract attention. There's barely any interesting formatting, because Cicero didn't have hyperlinks.

Englipsum solves those problems.

It generates grammatically-valid English that makes sense in context. It looks right, thus allowing itself to be ignored. Englipsum pays attention to the little details that make text natural-looking. The default dictionary includes words found on most tech-ey websites.

Usage

Simply include englipsum.js in your HTML file:

<script src="https://github.com/Hardmath123/englipsum/raw/gh-pages/englipsum.js></script>

Elements of class englipsum will be populated with placeholder text automatically.

<div class="englipsum"></div>

You can customize settings by including JSON in the element:

<div class="englipsum">
{
    "paragraphs": 3,
    "links": true
}
</div>

Reference

Property	Value
paragraphs	The number of paragraphs to generate
sentences	The number of sentences per paragraph
links	Generate random links? (they are uniquely stamped so that testing a:visited is easy)
ems	Italicize random words?
dict	Provide your own dictionary. Object with fields (all optional) nouns, verbs, adjs, advs
dict	Reference a provided dictionary. Possible values: "farm"

Examples

Create a to-do list:

<ol>
    <li class="englipsum"> {"sentences": 1, "paragraphs": 1}</li>
    <li class="englipsum"> {"sentences": 1, "paragraphs": 1}</li>
    <li class="englipsum"> {"sentences": 1, "paragraphs": 1}</li>
    <li class="englipsum"> {"sentences": 1, "paragraphs": 1}</li>
</ol>

Placeholder text about animals:

<div class="englipsum">
{
    "dict": {
        "nouns": ["cow", "pig", "sheep", "fish", "farmer", "tractor"],
        "verbs": ["makes", "grows", "works", "produces", "helps"]
    }
}
</div>