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Build engaging experiences faster with Experience Manager Sites components.

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Accelerate web and page development with a modular system.

Adobe Experience Manager Sites empowers teams to build responsive digital experiences faster with a powerful system of modular web components. Leverage a rich library of out-of-the-box and core components — including drag-and-drop UI element — to accelerate page creation, ensure brand consistency, and reduce the need for custom coding. Experience Manager Sites’ component-driven approach improves development efficiency, supports scalable content operations, and lowers total cost of ownership.

The obstacle: overcoming content velocity challenges.

Delivering fresh, engaging content across multiple markets requires speed and consistency. Traditional web development models that rely on manual coding and non-reusable elements slow down page creation, strain developer resources, and risk inconsistent branding across devices.

Without a modular framework, marketing teams face delays translating their vision into live experiences, while developers spend valuable time recreating standard components like forms, image galleries, or navigation menus. In today’s digital landscape, enterprises need a scalable, reusable system to meet content velocity demands without sacrificing quality or agility.

Build digital experiences faster with Experience Manager Sites web components.

Experience Manager Sites addresses these challenges with a sophisticated system of pre-built and customizable components.

  • Authors can quickly assemble responsive, brand-aligned pages through a visual, drag-and-drop interface — no deep technical expertise required.
  • Developers gain productivity by reusing and extending standardized, backward-compatible components, reducing custom build times and streamlining maintenance.

This modular approach ensures consistent digital experiences across every channel, speeding time to market while maintaining design integrity and performance.

Accelerate web development with Experience Manager components.

Experience Manager Sites core components offer a standardized set of production-ready UI building blocks that enable faster page creation and consistent user experiences across digital touchpoints. Authors can easily use intuitive components like breadcrumbs, search bars, carousels, forms, and image galleries to visually assemble pages. Meanwhile, developers benefit from core components’ extensibility, version control, and backward compatibility, which provide a future-proof foundation for scalable site evolution. This approach reduces custom development needs and simplifies upgrades, lowering long-term total costs.

Benefits of Experience Manager Sites components.

Functional, flexible web components.

Each Experience Manager component is a self-contained, configurable resource that encapsulates scripts, styles, and functionality. Authors can easily tailor components — from basic text blocks to complex UI elements like accordions and tabs — without developer intervention for standard use cases.

Lower costs with upgradeable CMS components.

Experience Manager’s core components are designed for longevity and upgradability, reducing maintenance risks over time. Regular versioning and backward compatibility protect development investments and simplify platform upgrades compared to highly customized, legacy solutions.

Consistent brand experiences with inherited UI components.

Experience Manager templates and component inheritance ensure shared elements like headers, footers, and navigation bars maintain visual and functional consistency across sites. The Experience Manager Style System enables defined styling variations, empowering authors while preserving brand standards.

Dynamic media integration for optimized visuals.

Image-based components integrate seamlessly with Experience Manager Dynamic Media, enabling features like smart crop, image presets, and performance optimization directly within component configurations — ensuring high-quality visuals across all devices.

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Component terminology comparison.

Term
Experience Manager context and relevance
Web components
Experience Manager components provide similar benefits (reusability, encapsulation, faster development) and act as building blocks for web pages.
UI components
Many Experience Manager components directly render user interface elements (forms, buttons, navigation, carousels) for authors to configure and users to interact with.
CMS components
Experience Manager components are managed within the CMS, defining content structure and appearance on pages, often linked to templates and workflows.
Drag and Drop components
Describes the primary authoring method in Experience Manager Sites for adding and arranging components on a page using the visual editor.
Content components
Experience Manager components manage specific pieces of content (text, images, video, fragments) that make up the page experience.
Core components
Experience Manager’s specific set of modern, standardized, best-practice out-of-the-box components designed for flexibility, maintainability, and performance.
Out-of-the-box components
General term for pre-built Experience Manager components ready for use. Core components are the primary example in modern Experience Manager implementations.

FAQs

How does Experience Manager define web components?
While Experience Manager components are built using Adobe technologies like HTML template language (HTL) and Sling — rather than native browser standards like custom elements or shadow DOM — they offer the same key advantages: modularity, reusability, and encapsulation. Experience Manager components act as self-contained building blocks to accelerate web page development.
What are UI components in Experience Manager Sites?
UI components are pre-built elements that render parts of the user interface and can be visually configured by authors. Examples include forms, navigation menus, search bars, carousels, tabs, and accordions — all essential for building interactive, responsive pages without coding.
What are Experience Manager core components?
Core components are Adobe’s standardized, production-ready set of content management components. Built on best practices, they offer flexible authoring features, extensive configuration options, version control, and backward compatibility — making them the recommended foundation for modern Experience Manager sites.
How are core components different from foundation components?
Core components are modern, flexible, and maintained according to current best practices. Foundation components are older, legacy components that rely on outdated technologies and are largely deprecated. New projects should use core components for better performance and maintainability.
How is the Experience Manager GraphQL API used with components?
The Experience Manager GraphQL API lets developers query and retrieve structured content from Experience Manager components in a headless setup. This enables efficient delivery of specific fields — like text or image URLs — to front-end applications such as SPAs, mobile apps, or other digital experiences, improving performance and flexibility.
What does “drag-and-drop components” mean in Experience Manager Sites?
Drag-and-drop components refer to the visual page-building experience in Experience Manager Sites. Authors can select components from a side panel and drag them into place on a page — allowing them to create layouts and publish content intuitively without needing to write code.