Lorem Ipsum HTML Generator

Using it well

Lorem Ipsum HTML Generator, in practice

Test collapsing margins

A single paragraph tells you nothing about vertical spacing between blocks. Generate at least three so you can see how adjacent paragraph margins interact, which is where most spacing bugs actually live.

Paste into CMS rich-text fields carefully

Some editors strip or rewrite pasted HTML. If your CMS mangles the tags, paste into the field's source or code view rather than the WYSIWYG surface.

Strip it before you ship

Placeholder markup in a production template is one of the most common ways Lorem Ipsum reaches live sites. Search your templates for 'lorem' as a release step — it is a two-second check that has saved a lot of embarrassing launches.

It will not test your escaping

The output is clean, well-formed markup with no angle brackets, ampersands, or quotes inside the text. Those are exactly the characters that break templates and open injection holes, so this is the wrong text for that job. Use it to check how your styles render, and test escaping separately with strings that deliberately contain the awkward characters.

Check the field type before pasting

Pasting markup into a plain-text field renders the tags as visible characters rather than as paragraphs. It looks like the generator produced something wrong, and it did not — the field simply was not expecting HTML. If you see literal angle brackets on the page, switch the output to plain text rather than debugging the markup.

Inspect what the editor stored

Many rich-text editors rewrite pasted markup: re-wrapping paragraphs, stripping attributes, or nesting elements inside their own containers. Paste one block first and look at the stored HTML before you fill a whole page, because whatever the editor did to one paragraph it will do to forty.

It produces paragraphs, and only paragraphs

The HTML output wraps each block in a paragraph tag and stops there. That is enough to test body copy, margins, and measure, and it is not enough to test the rest of your prose styles: headings, lists, blockquotes, and code blocks are never exercised. Switch to the Markdown output when you need those, or paste the paragraphs into a structure you have written by hand. A stylesheet that has only ever been tested against paragraphs tends to fall over the first time an article contains a nested list.