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title: "Managing your components"
date: "2017-11-13T08:14:38+00:00"
summary: "Learn how to efficiently manage, edit, disable, and delete Site Studio components. This guide provides step-by-step instructions for customizing your Drupal site's building blocks and maintaining a streamlined component library."
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You can manage your existing Components including editing, disabling selection and deleting them.

Editing a component
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1.  Navigate to Site Studio > Components > **Components**
2.  Find the Component you want to edit
3.  Click **Edit**
4.  On the next screen, edit the Component
5.  Click **Save and continue**
6.  The changes you have made to your Component will be applied to all instances where it's used.

![2f793ff8-editing-components.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/6da95dde-bc61-4ac7-a828-2fc0158c8a81/web/2f793ff8-editing-components.png)

Disabling selection of a component
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When you disable selection of a Component it will no longer appear as an option in the Sidebar browser. Disable selection allows you to depreciate a Component without it breaking instances where it's used currently.

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > Components > **Components**
2.  Find the Component you want to disable selection
3.  Click **Disable selection**
4.  On the confirmation screen, click **Disable selection.**

![7376930d-disabling-selection.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/c1686f6a-b363-442f-9e94-023d1f5a7b04/web/7376930d-disabling-selection.png)

Enabling selection of a component
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When you enable selection of a Component it will appear as an option in the Sidebar browser. Selection allows you to depreciate a Component without it breaking instances where it's used currently.

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > Components > **Components**
2.  Find the Component you want to enable selection
3.  Click **Enable selection**
4.  On the confirmation screen, click **Enable selection.**

Deleting a component
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When you delete a Component it will permanently remove the files and configuration. Any content using the Component will no longer use it and any content that's been added to the component will be deleted.

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > Components > **Components**
2.  Find the Component you want to delete
3.  Click **Delete**
4.  On the confirmation screen, click **Delete.**

![feeb2857-deleting-components.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/0aacc710-416b-4731-bc3f-e7efceff0536/web/feeb2857-deleting-components.png)