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Recently, I went on a search for “lorem ipsum” text for my web testing efforts. On a daily basis, I find myself entering large blocks of meaningless text in web forms, and I spend too much time trying to come up with witty things to enter. That’s when I discovered loremipsum.com:

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English.

Not only does loremipsum.com provide an informatitive background about the origins and uses of the placeholder text commonly used in many publishing programs, it provides a web based generator. Generating incomprehensible text has never been easier. If you’re a Firefox user, you can install the Dummy Lipsum Generator plugin. To install the Firefox plugin, click here.

Generate Lorem Ipsum text

It couldn’t be simpler. From the Tools menu in Firefox, click Dummy Lipsum Generator. From the Dummy Lipsum Generator, select the amount of text you want measured in paragraphs, words, lists, or bytes. Generate. Copy to Clipboard. Paste into your form.

Since I commonly test the character limits on the form, I generate 501 bytes of text to test the validation on a 500 character limit of form. Better yet, I’ll never be a loss for words again.