Components components
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) comes with various out-of-the-box components that provide comprehensive functionality for website authors. They are available when editing a page. They group them by a main functional area called a component group to aid filtering.
The components are available when editing a page. Group the components by their main functional area (the component group) to aid filtering.
General usage general-usage
The components are available on the Components tab of the side panel of the page editor when editing a page.
You can select a component and drag it to the required location on your page. You can then edit it using:
For more information about adding components to a page, see Editing Page Content.
Components are sorted according to various categories called component groups. Examples of such component groups include:
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WeRetail: Includes the core components proxied for use with the WeRetail reference implementation.
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WeRetail Commerce: Includes commerce components such as carts and product grids
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General: Includes the layout container and Experience Fragment
Overview of All Components overview-of-all-components
The Components Console gives an overview of the component groups, and components that are provided by your AEM installation. You can view key information about the individual components and their usage.
Components - major areas components-major-areas
The following pages provide links to some of additional, important information about components:
- Core Components - The core components offer flexible and feature-rich authoring functionality, which provides essential content types to create pages.
Configure components configuring-components
In addition to the components that authors can access in a standard installation, various other components are also available.
- If your page is based on the recommended, modern, editable template, you can change the template, enable or disable them, and edit parameters for specific components.
- If your page is based on a static template, you can use design mode to enable or disable them, and edit parameters for specific components.