Surge Migrate

Foundation Form Start, Form End to the Form Container Core Component

A single container replaces the Foundation start and end markers; fields sit inside it. Adobe lists the Form Container Core Component as the replacement for the Foundation Form Start, Form End components, which are deprecated in AEM 6.5.

What changes

  • Content between a Form Start and Form End pair must be moved into one Form Container.
  • Form actions (store content, email, custom) need checking against what the Core container supports and any custom actions you wrote.

How to migrate

  1. Create a proxy of the Form Container Core Component in your project under /apps and point templates and policies at it, so future Core Component versions are a one-line change.
  2. Configure the template policy (allowed options, styles) to match what authors could do before.
  3. Write a conversion rule that maps existing Foundation content to the new component's properties; Adobe's AEM Modernization Tools apply such rules to content in bulk.
  4. Run the conversion on a copy of production content, compare rendered pages side by side, then let authors test editing.

Sources: Adobe: Developing Core Components (component list); Adobe: Foundation Components (AEM 6.5). Checked 20 October 2026.