The Author Component is an extension of the OOTB text component used to populate the author of the content being displayed on the page. This is not the web content author, but the person(s) who produced the content for the Census.
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The Author component should be added to pages with content written by a specific person(s) to attribute credit to the authors and establish accountability for the work.
The Author component is used to display the person(s) who produced the content for the Census and is manually entered by the AEM content author.
The configure dialog allows the content author to manually enter the person(s) who authored the content. Once authored, the component will display like the example below.
Expand the section below to see the Author Component's HTML output.