# Event card

### Summary

Event cards are used to highlight events and are created within the Manual list component.

This section shows you how to add an Event card.

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### Step 1 - Add the Event card <a href="#eventcardcomponent-step1-addtheeventcard" id="eventcardcomponent-step1-addtheeventcard"></a>

Within the Manual list component under List items, click on the dropdown and select Event card.

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### Step 2 - Add details to the Event card <a href="#eventcardcomponent-step1-addtheeventcard" id="eventcardcomponent-step1-addtheeventcard"></a>

You can see the fields in the screenshot below.

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Most of the highlighted fields are simple, self-explanatory text fields. Some of the non-text fields are explained below.

4\. Date - You can click on the calendar icon to select a date from the popup date widget.

5\. URL - This is an autocomplete field. Start by typing the title of the internal page or enter an external URL.

6\. Topic (optional) - This is an autocomplete field. Terms must first exist in your [Topics](/content-authoring/vocabularies/topics.md) vocabulary.


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