placeholder
Holds the spot
A placeholder is something that occupies a position temporarily until the intended thing arrives or is determined.
In documents, placeholder text fills space where real content will go: The designer used lorem ipsum as placeholder text.
A placeholder can be a person filling a role provisionally, or a symbol in math or programming representing a value to be supplied later.
One acting for another
- stand-inTemporary human placeholder
- substituteReplacement for another
- replacementWhat takes another's place
- representativeOne who acts for another
delegate · deputy · agent · alternate · fill-in · locum · understudy · double
Substance closing gaps
- dummyLifelike substitute figure
- blankWithout marks or content
- markerSomething that signals location
- temporaryLimited in duration
provisional · interim · stopgap · makeshift · contingent · expedient · reserve · backup
surrogate
One acting for another
- stand-inTemporary human placeholder
- substituteReplacement for another
- replacementWhat takes another's place
representative · delegate · deputy · agent · alternate · fill-in · locum · understudy · double · pinch-hitter
filler
Substance closing gaps
temporary · provisional · interim · stopgap · makeshift · contingent · expedient · reserve · backup · fallback
lorem ipsum
Standard typographic placeholder text
- dummy textPlaceholder content for layouts
- boilerplateStandardized reusable text
- variableProne to fluctuation
field · token · string · parameter · argument · value · input · slot · bracket · curly brace
- profile picturesprofile picture, selfie, headshot, avatar, default avatar
- filler contentfiller, fluff, pablum, boilerplate, lorem ipsum
- presentationspresentation, slides, slide, keynote, slideshow
- substitutessubstitute, subs, replacement, substitutes, stand-in
- temporarytemporary, temp job, interim, temp worker, provisional
- emptinessemptiness, void, vacuum, nothingness, blank
placeholderfinal version
Completed, approved iteration
the real thing · permanent · finished product · fixture · mainstay