---
title: "Variables, tables or parts: which one to use | Coframe guides"
description: "How to keep content that many landing pages share: variables for a value per page, tables for content that changes often, parts for shared sections."
url: https://www.coframe.com/guide-choose-variable-table-or-part
format: agent version of this page (the same facts as the page, as text)
updated: 2026-11-03
---

| Question | Variable | Table | Part |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Holds | One value per page, like a city or a headline | Rows of content, like locations or jobs | A whole section, like a header or a footer |
| Changes reach live pages | When you publish | In about a minute, no publish | When you publish the pages that use it |
| Edit it in | Data › Page variables | Data | Components |
| Best for | Pages that differ by a few words | Content that changes often, or that someone else edits | Sections that must look the same everywhere |

## Use a variable when pages differ by a few words

Twenty city pages that differ only in the city name and phone number. A headline that matches the search someone typed.

## Use a table when the content changes or grows

Store hours, prices, open jobs, an FAQ. Someone on another team can update the table without touching a page. Each row can also be its own page. See [Make pages from a table](https://www.coframe.com/guide-pages-from-a-table).

## Use a part when a section must stay the same everywhere

Your header, your footer, your legal text, your pricing block. Change it once. See [Reuse sections across pages](https://www.coframe.com/guide-reuse-sections).

## What not to do

Don't make a hundred copies of a page and edit each one. It works on day one. On day thirty, a price changes and you edit a hundred pages. Put the price in a table or a part instead.

## Coming soon

- **Templates**, for a whole page you start from again and again.Coming soon
- **Campaigns**, which tailor a page you have to each ad group or ad, or make a page for each row of a list.Coming soon

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```json
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```

- **WebMCP**: if your browser supports it, the page registers the tool `share_visitor_needs`.

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