Placeholder paragraphs, sentences, words, or list items, with an optional classic opening and plain or HTML output.
This lorem ipsum generator produces placeholder text for layouts, mockups, and templates. Choose how much you need as a number of paragraphs, sentences, words, or list items, decide whether the text should open with the familiar "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" line, and get the result as plain text or as ready-to-paste HTML with <p> or <li> tags. A numeric seed makes the output repeatable, so a colleague who opens the same link sees exactly the same filler, and a New random text button picks a fresh seed. Counts of paragraphs, sentences, words, and characters are shown so you can match a design's expected copy length. It is aimed at designers, front-end developers, and anyone laying out a document before the real copy exists.
Words are drawn from a vocabulary of about 130 Latin-looking words taken from the traditional lorem ipsum passage and its continuation in Cicero's De finibus. A small deterministic pseudo-random generator (mulberry32, seeded by the number you enter) picks words, avoiding the same word twice in a row. Sentences are 8 to 16 words long, start with a capital letter, sometimes contain one comma, and end with a period; paragraphs contain 4 to 8 sentences. When the classic opening is on, the first sentence is always "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua." In word mode the text is cut to exactly the requested number of words and finished with a period. HTML mode wraps paragraphs in <p>, list items in <li> inside a <ul>, and sentence or word output in a single <p>.
The standard passage is a scrambled excerpt from Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum, written in 45 BC, in which sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 discuss the ethics of pain and pleasure. Typesetters have used it since at least the 1960s (Letraset sheets) and it spread with desktop publishing software in the 1980s. Because the words are not real Latin sentences, readers look at the layout rather than the meaning.
The generator uses a deterministic pseudo-random number generator, so the sequence of word choices depends only on the seed and the options. That makes results repeatable: the shareable link stores the seed, unit, count, and format, and anyone opening it sees identical text. Press New random text to pick another seed.
Each paragraph has 4 to 8 sentences of 8 to 16 words, so roughly 50 to 110 words, averaging about 70. Use the word unit if you need an exact count, for example to fill a card that is designed for 40 words of body copy. The counters under the output show the exact totals for whatever you generated.
Yes. HTML mode outputs plain <p>…</p> paragraphs, a <ul> with <li> items for list mode, or a single <p> for sentences and words, with no classes, inline styles, or wrapper elements. The text contains only ASCII letters, spaces, commas, and periods, so it needs no entity encoding. Use Download .html for a file you can open in a browser.
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