# Renaming custom components

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/renaming-custom-components/53409>\
**Category:** Elements\
**Created:** [December 29, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/renaming-custom-components/53409 "2025-12-29T15:23:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Gianluca73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@Gianluca73](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Gianluca73)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/renaming-custom-components/53409/1 "2025-12-29T15:23:02Z")

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Maybe it’s already possibile and I just wasn’t smart enough to find out how, but I think it would be very useful to be able to rename custom components (html and so on) just like you can do with globals. At the moment I have created different custom html snippets but when I have to re-use one of them I always have to drag it in the page and see if it’s the right one, because they’re all named “html”…not the worst thing on earth, but still user-unfriendly 🙂

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**Author:** ![PMUK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7993a0/32.png) [@PMUK](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/PMUK)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/renaming-custom-components/53409/2 "2025-12-29T15:47:48Z")

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On top of component to you see the word HTML click on and rename it whatever you like!

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**Author:** ![Gianluca73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@Gianluca73](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Gianluca73)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/renaming-custom-components/53409/3 "2025-12-29T17:56:40Z")

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Thanks Paul,

That’s what I’ve tried first, but I’d didn’t seem to work for me. Maybe I wasn’t clicking where I was supposed to… I’ll try again

😅

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**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:** [December 29, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/renaming-custom-components/53409/4 "2025-12-29T20:28:39Z")

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Try double-clicking on the title in the code editor.

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**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:** [December 29, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/renaming-custom-components/53409/5 "2025-12-29T20:45:59Z")

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Click the title in the editor to rename the custom component:

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/e/c/ec24d6642b47e6cde59897fbe6fec66758e9b824.avif)

From the manual: [Custom | RapidWeaver Elements Docs](https://docs.realmacsoftware.com/elements-docs/elements/components/custom-components#edit-your-custom-component)

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**Author:** ![Gianluca73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@Gianluca73](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Gianluca73)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/renaming-custom-components/53409/6 "2025-12-29T21:46:40Z")

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Oooh… thank you! Yes! I was definitely clicking on the wrong place 😃