[thelist] "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet!" ?

[Dan Romanchik]

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From: "Simon Willison" <cs1spw at bath.ac.uk>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:25 PM
Subject: [thelist] "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet!" ?


> Just wondering what the origin of this oh-so-common piece of text is.
> I'm guessing it's Latin but what does it mean and why is it used so
> often to bulk out designs that have not yet had proper text added to them?
>
> Case in point: http://www.glish.com/css/blogger/blogger.html - but I've
> seen it loads of times before.
>
> <tip type="CSS Mouseovers">
> This is my first experiment with CSS for anything other than basic
> typography so it's probably not of tip standard, but I thought I'd share
> it here anyway since I created it thanks to all the help I got from
> thelist with my CSS questions the other day. Here's a cool way of making
> one of those hover-your-mouse-over-a-link-and-
> the-table-cell-changes-colour things without using tables. Te principle
> is simple - you have a set of normal links inside a div with a specific
> ID - then you create a stylesheet which selects all <a> tags inside that
> id and sets them to be block level rather than inline and adds a
> background colour. Do an additional style with a :hover modifier and
> you're sorted - here's the code:
>
> <style type="text/css">
> #menu {
>   width: 160px;
>   font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
>   font-size: 80%;
>   background-color: aliceblue;
> }
> #menu a {
>   display: block;
>   background-color: darkblue;
>   color: aliceblue;
>   text-align: center;
> }
> #menu a:hover {
>   background-color: aliceblue;
>   color: darkblue;
> }
> </style>
>
> <div id="menu">
> <a href="somewhere1.html">A link</a>
> <a href="somewhere2.html">Another link</a>
> <a href="somewhere3.html">And another</a>
> </div>
>
> </tip>
>
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