Placeholder

Placeholder may refer to:

Language

 * Placeholder name, a term or terms referring to something or somebody whose name is not known or, in that particular context, is not significant or relevant.
 * Filler text, text generated to fill space or provide unremarkable and/or standardised text.
 * Lorem ipsum, a standard Latin text most commonly used to demonstrate a font, typography or layout.

Mathematics and computer science

 * Free variable, a symbol subsequently replaced by a value or string.
 * Interpoled variable of a string interpolation process.
 * Metasyntactic variable, a placeholder name (see above) as used in computer science.
 * Format placeholder, used in computing to format strings within print functions.

Other uses

 * Line stander, a person standing in a queue for another.
 * Placeholder (politics), a person temporarily appointed to an office that would otherwise remain vacant.