Surge Migrate

Foundation Top Navigation, Mobile Top Navigation to the Navigation Core Component

Site navigation built from the page hierarchy. Adobe lists the Navigation Core Component as the replacement for the Foundation Top Navigation, Mobile Top Navigation components, which are deprecated in AEM 6.5.

What changes

  • Navigation root and structure depth replace the Foundation top navigation settings; mobile behaviour comes from styling.

How to migrate

  1. Create a proxy of the Navigation 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.