# Announcing RapidWeaver Elements 2.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [January 27, 2026, 11:36pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930 "2026-01-27T23:36:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 11:36pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/1 "2026-01-27T23:36:43Z")
Hey Weavers, Today we’re excited to share a **first preview of Elements 2.0**. This is the biggest update to Elements since launch and it lays the groundwork for where the platform goes next. Over the last month or so we deliberately paused work on the Store to refocus on core improvements, polish, and many of the most requested features raised by our community on the forum. **So what’s new?** Elements 2.0 introduces new core components including **Markdown, Tabs, and Lists** , three brand-new themes, list styling support in Typography for CMS content, SVG image masks, and a long list of refinements across the app. We’ll share a full breakdown of changes when Elements 2.0 officially ships. Oh, and this is HUGE… we’re open-sourcing our core components along with the build tools we use internal 🤯 If you’re an avid component creator, you’re going to love this. Everything you’re seeing today is landing very soon and, importantly, **Elements 2.0 is free for all customers with an active subscription**. We’re aiming to release the first beta of Elements 2.0 **next week**. ### RapidWeaver Elements 2.0 Overview In the meantime, take a quick whistle-stop tour through the biggest changes coming in Elements 2.0, and get a feel for where we’re heading next. [![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/a/3/a37759eafb6bf9570ce97a846aadf44595842bf0.jpeg "Elements 2.0 Preview") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqpsI7ZmRE0) ### New List Component Lists are now first-class citizens in Elements. Create, style, and reuse lists with ease, whether you’re working on structured content or simple layouts. [![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/6/1/61e6633d2900c24156c26d668d77e010541658aa.jpeg "New List Component") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUOjTlfeID8) ### New Markdown Component Write content naturally using Markdown and watch it render instantly inside Elements. The new built-in editor makes Markdown fast, visual, and genuinely enjoyable to use. [![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/8/8/8863bfd81ba5e42059e3e8209b885759b87cc52a.jpeg "New Markdown Component") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7x9Rrbt5vU) ### New Tabs Component One of the most requested features is finally here. The new Tabs component is powered by dynamic dropzones, opening the door to more flexible, content-driven components across Elements. This is just the beginning. [![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/9/a/9a14b051320e0e24ddccb971b9aa9e2ba05bbb40.jpeg "New Tabs Component") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5omS4nPpuI) ### Open-Source Core Components This is a major milestone for Elements. The entire **built-in Core Pack is now open-source** , along with the internal build tools we use to ship Elements. All Core Components, Themes, and Resources are included. You can inspect how every Core Component is built, track changes as they happen, and, if you’re code-savvy, contribute improvements back via pull requests. The same tools we use internally are now available to the community. [![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/b/a/ba52063cd8cb5e3fd3c6ae9f99046ab05d782693.jpeg "Developer: Component Build Tools System") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_57memVXHk) We’ve also expanded and completed the Documentation for the Elements API, along with adding a detailed [section on using the open source components](https://docs.realmacsoftware.com/elements-docs/elements-language/dev-resources/open-source-components) and [build tools](https://docs.realmacsoftware.com/elements-docs/elements-language/dev-resources/build-tools). We’ve even built an [Elements Syntax Highlighting extension](https://docs.realmacsoftware.com/elements-docs/elements-language/dev-resources/syntax-highlighting) for Visual Studio Code 😅. ### Even More Improvements A lot of work in Elements 2.0 is almost invisible, but you’ll feel it, for example if you’re not using Forms or the CMS, publishing is now faster thanks to the leaner Core Pack. All of the improvements in the app are the direct result of user feedback, and we’ve continued refining the UI, Inspector behaviour, and component options. ## Availability Elements 2.0 will be shipping in early February as a public beta and is a **free upgrade** for all users with an active subscription. Thanks to everyone who’s shared feedback, reported issues, and helped shape Elements over the past few years. Your support has shaped Elements and this is a direct result of that collaboration. We can’t wait to get Elements 2.0 into your hands. **Team Elements** ---
**Author:** ![MichaelDroste](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/michaeldroste/32/37212_2.png) [@MichaelDroste](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/MichaelDroste)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 12:47am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/2 "2026-01-28T00:47:29Z")
AMAZING WORK!!! Congratulations ---
**Author:** ![ajenks](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ajenks/32/34693_2.png) [@ajenks](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ajenks)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 1:01am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/3 "2026-01-28T01:01:25Z")
It is truly a wonderful time to be alive…😄 We really appreciate all your hard work. ---
**Author:** ![forasong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d07c76/32.png) [@forasong](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/forasong)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 1:31am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/4 "2026-01-28T01:31:21Z")
I’m an old guy and long-time RapidWeaver user with multiple personal websites but minimum RW skills. That said, I’m upgrading to Elements tonight, and hoping to improve my websites going forward. ---
**Author:** ![AnasHyeee](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/anashyeee/32/27982_2.png) [@AnasHyeee](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/AnasHyeee)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 1:43am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/5 "2026-01-28T01:43:28Z")
Wow, I appreciate your hard work team rapidweaver , Amazing updates, I love the new Component we really need it Thank you again to make our idea life 🤩 ---
**Author:** ![skypilota72](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/skypilota72/32/24979_2.png) [@skypilota72](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/skypilota72)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 1:43am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/6 "2026-01-28T01:43:36Z")
So, are you saying a complete CMS platform will be available?…. Terrence ---
**Author:** ![handshaper](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/handshaper/32/27373_2.png) [@handshaper](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/handshaper)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 1:46am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/7 "2026-01-28T01:46:12Z")
Oh, man! This made my day so many improvements and new additions. Timing is going to be perfect for my last site that I have just started moving to Elements. This should really help push Elements forward. I’m eager to get my hands on those open source components, so I can polish my ones with the build tools. Bravo! ---
**Author:** ![jbyfield](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/jbyfield/32/82_2.png) [@jbyfield](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jbyfield)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 2:45am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/8 "2026-01-28T02:45:16Z")
Never thought I would get excited about tabs but have already redesigned my sites in my head to take advantage. ---
**Author:** ![AstraeaMarketing](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/astraeamarketing/32/26251_2.png) [@AstraeaMarketing](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/AstraeaMarketing)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 4:12am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/9 "2026-01-28T04:12:26Z")
Just watched the features and overview video on YouTube and it looks great. One feature I am really hoping is in the works is tables. Any word on that? ---
**Author:** ![meonmac](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/meonmac/32/36720_2.png) [@meonmac](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/meonmac)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 7:55am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/10 "2026-01-28T07:55:07Z")
Do I see correctly that if there are some values changed ¨ in controls like in General, Color, List, Spacing etc. that its highlighted with color ? I was asking for this a while back. Not sure if this is new or not, but its very useful feature. ![Elements idea](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/c/9/c95b61354c22bed87468ebc17f85119e0e58ed76.jpeg) > [@Easy way reseting parameters in Components?](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/easy-way-reseting-parameters-in-components/52625/7): > > Something like this . . . some indication of a value in that specific components panel (colorized icon?) with Reset option. Just an idea. ---
**Author:** ![Tofty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@Tofty](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Tofty)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 8:20am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/11 "2026-01-28T08:20:51Z")
These updates are fantastic! Well done guys. The Tabs component in particular is going to be super useful and caused an explosion of ideas of what I can do with it. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelDroste](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/michaeldroste/32/37212_2.png) [@MichaelDroste](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/MichaelDroste)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 9:29am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/12 "2026-01-28T09:29:18Z")
Trying to think of tab usages…. I want the ‘pages’ to show up in the menu… Thinking: I could put music curriculum in tabs… 12week course… (or leave it on one page) How are you going to use tabs??? ---
**Author:** ![Pegasus](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/pegasus/32/25035_2.png) [@Pegasus](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Pegasus)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 9:31am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/13 "2026-01-28T09:31:16Z")
vertical tabs would be desirable, but it’s good that we have tabs now, at least ^^ ---
**Author:** ![jbyfield](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/jbyfield/32/82_2.png) [@jbyfield](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jbyfield)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/14 "2026-01-28T09:48:49Z")
> [@MichaelDroste](#): > > How are you going to use tabs??? Instead of a submenu with say four pages that you have to go back to the parent every time you want to select another page you can just select the parent page and then have all four sub pages showing as tabs making it a simple single click between pages. Just makes it smoother and removes the needless backwards and forwards. Had never considered it an issue until I watched the video above. ---
**Author:** ![ercross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@ercross](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ercross)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 10:06am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/15 "2026-01-28T10:06:49Z")
Great job, Elements Team! Can’t wait for 3rd party developers to get their hands on the open source core elements to help them in new component designs. This opens up the “new toy window” even wider and gives us an opportunity to support the developer community. I’m not a developer, but kudos to all you 3rd party developers who have been so helpful to us mere mortals in using Elements. ---
**Author:** ![jbob](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/jbob/32/31581_2.png) [@jbob](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jbob)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 10:15am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/16 "2026-01-28T10:15:34Z")
Am curious … What about Tabs and SEO. Can Google index all the info on all the tabs - even the closed ones ? What about load times - if there are many large tabs, then presumably there is a lot of data to load ? Or am I thinking about this wrong ? Jol ---
**Author:** ![PMUK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7993a0/32.png) [@PMUK](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/PMUK)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/17 "2026-01-28T11:42:09Z")
and just when I thought my website was ready for launch……boom! Well Done my head hurts!🤯 ---
**Author:** ![WeaverPixel](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/weaverpixel/32/25453_2.png) [@WeaverPixel](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/WeaverPixel)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 11:49am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/18 "2026-01-28T11:49:47Z")
You keep us busy with new features 😂 Well done 👏 ---
**Author:** ![ajenks](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ajenks/32/34693_2.png) [@ajenks](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ajenks)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/19 "2026-01-28T13:44:06Z")
you will not be dissapointed. Once you start using Elements, you won’t want to use anything else. ---
**Author:** ![AnasHyeee](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/anashyeee/32/27982_2.png) [@AnasHyeee](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/AnasHyeee)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 2:23pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930/20 "2026-01-28T14:23:47Z")
I love the mask and the variety of colors. I like Using markdown to drop images is very easy. Request: - Can the border radius be adjusted by writing a number %? - Is it possible to add SVGs to the list? [Next page](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/announcing-rapidweaver-elements-2-0/53930.md?page=2)