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JavedZi
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June 20, 2026
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Style System Options (Paint Brush icon) not coming while using targeting mode in AEMAACS

  • June 20, 2026
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When i switch to target mode from edit mode , i am not able to see the style system (Paint brush) icon to select the styles from my style system. This is across all of my components and i dont want to make so many changes now. I tried including those options at dialog level in separate styles tab using
<styletab
                        jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
                        sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/include"
                        path="/mnt/overlay/cq/gui/components/authoring/dialog/style/tab_design/styletab"/>


but even that style tab in dialog goes missing when i use target mode.

Even when i use some styles in edit mode and then go to target mode to target the component , then also my default universal styles which were applied in edit mode before targeting the component are being removed.
Can someone help me here? I dont want to change all the components now, need some universal solution.

1 reply

ChitraMadan
Community Advisor
ChitraMadanCommunity Advisor
Community Advisor
June 23, 2026

Hi ​@JavedZi ,

 

This is the expected AEM behaviour, not a misconfiguration: the Styles option is only visible in inline edit mode for the target component, the Styles tab is not visible when authors click configure on a target component.

You’ll have to override this behaviour.

Adobe's recommended path now is Target + Web SDK + Experience Fragments instead of the old in-editor targeting layer — if you switch to that model, this paintbrush issue goes away entirely since variants are authored in normal Edit mode.

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