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Page and region structure

Pages combine different Content Manager building blocks to create a page that you can publish to a website.

Pages
A Page is a top-level Region, which contains one or more Regions and/or Components (or Component Presentations). Since the Page is also a Region, it is based on a Region Schema, which you specify in the Page Template.
Regions
A Region represents a content area on a Page and can contain Components (or Component Presentations) and/or further Regions. In fact, a Page is considered the top-level Region. The red dashed boxed areas on the right are Regions.
Regions are based on Region Schemas.
Note that Regions are not separate items in Content Manager. You cannot create one in a Folder or Structure Group in the same way you can create a Component (or Component Presentation), Bundle or Page. Rather, they are defined for you already in a Page, and you specify their contents.
Components
Components define text or multimedia content.
Components are based on Schemas that define the kinds of fields you can specify. Components based on the same Component Schema share the structure defined by that Schema.
You can add Components (or Component Presentations) to a Page's defined Regions, including the Page itself.

The following diagram shows a simplified view of an example page:

The example shows a page with three regions. The last region is a multi-column layout and contains three components.

The following screen capture shows the same page as it would appear when opened for editing in Experience Space: