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Placeholder
New in 2.4.0

A placeholder is used to reserve space for content that soon will appear in a layout.

Placeholders can include paragraph, header, image header and image to let you format the loaders to emulate the content being loaded.
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Lines

A placeholder can contain have lines of text

By default, repeated lines will appear varied in width. However, it may be useful to specify an exact length to make it match up with content more effectively

Headers

A placeholder can contain a header

Header content will have a slightly larger block size from paragraph

Paragraph

A placeholder can contain a paragraph

Paragraphs are used to group lines together.

Image

A placeholder can contain an image

Using square (1:1) or rectangular (4:3) will embed an aspect ratio into the image loader so that they modify size correctly with responsive styles.

Variations

Line Length

A line can specify how long its contents should appear

Fluid

A fluid placeholder takes up the width of its container

Inverted

A placeholder can have their colors inverted.

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