Create and manage Components

You can create reusable design elements called Components and use them across your designs. Components help you maintain consistency by letting you update all instances at once when you make changes to the source.

Turn any selection of elements into a reusable component within your design.

Share components with your team by publishing them to Brand Kit.

You control when components sync. They don't update automatically, so you choose when to push updates to other instances.

1. Edit the source component.
2. Select Change all to update all instances in the current design.

1. Edit the source component in Brand Kit.
2. Select Publish to push changes to all instances.
3. Team members can then sync updates to instances in their designs.

Component instances can be synced two ways:

• Sync single instance: Update one instance at a time.
• Sync all in design: Update all outdated instances in the current design at once.

You can customise component instances without breaking the link to the source. Available customisations:

• Text content: Edit text within the instance.
• Text formatting: Change font styles, sizes, and colours.
• Image and video: Swap media elements.

As the component creator, you can control what changes others can make to instances:

• Toggle all controls off to create a fully locked component that users can't modify, but still syncs when you publish changes.
• Toggle text formatting content, or image and video off to create a partially editable instance that receives all style changes from the source.

For components in a design: You can restrict text content, text formatting, and media (image/video)

For components published to Brand Kit: All of the above, plus the ability to restrict detaching entirely with.

Select Detach to turn the instance into a regular design element that is no longer linked to the source. This action can't be undone.

When you sync an instance, your customisations stay intact. Only the parts you haven't changed will update to match the source.

You can use components in Canva Docs and Email. They only work inside embedded designs. Add components using the /design command.

• Manual sync only: To update instances, select Publish or Change all (in a design).
• No nested components: You can't place one component inside another component.
• No auto-layout: Components don't resize or rearrange automatically to fit different layouts.
• Canva Docs and Email: Components only work inside embedded designs.

Canva Free users can view components in designs shared with them, but can't create or publish components.

Your customisations stay in place when you sync. Only the parts of the design that aren't customised update to match the source component.

Once you detach an instances it becomes a regular design element. To use the component again, delete the detached element and add a new copy from the source.

You can still edit existing component instances. You can't create new components or publish changes.

• Use Brand Kit to manage your assets
• Organise and share templates with your team
• Design with brand components