Placeholder

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A placeholder is a general term, sign, or symbol which is used in place of a specific unknown or irrelevant term or value. Placeholder may refer to:

• Placeholder name, words that can refer to unknown objects or people
• Free variables and bound variables, in disciplines involving formal languages, particularly mathematics and logic
• Metasyntactic variable, in computer science
• Lorem ipsum, in publishing and graphic design

[edit] See also

• Filler text

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