# Component Variants

**URL:** https://community.penpot.app/t/component-variants/3435
**Category:** Ask the community
**Tags:** community
**Created:** [July 17, 2023, 6:55am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/component-variants/3435 "2023-07-17T06:55:34Z")
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### Author: ![carolina.portugal](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/carolina.portugal/32/36_2.png) [@carolina.portugal](https://community.penpot.app/u/carolina.portugal)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2023, 7:15am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/component-variants/3435/2 "2023-07-17T07:15:29Z")

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Hello @Edje_Rebel , we are doing a rework on the components.

> [@Where is my component?](https://community.penpot.app/t/where-is-my-component/288):
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> We have started an important rework of components in Penpot. For example, many of you often ask “where is my component?” since, until now, components are created in the “Assets” panel, and there is no way of directly changing them, only modifying a copy and then doing a “update main component”. Now, when you create a component, the layer you used becomes the main component and you may act on it to modify the library component. Other layers are component copies that are linked to the main compo…

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