Content Fragments and Experience Fragments are different features within AEM:
- Content Fragments are editorial content, with definition and structure, but without additional visual design and/or layout. They can be used to access structured data, including texts, numbers, and dates, amongst others.
- Experience Fragments are fully laid out content; a fragment of a web page.
Experience Fragments can contain content in the form of Content Fragments, but not the other way around. For more information, see Understanding Content Fragments and Experience Fragments in AEM.
With Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as a Cloud Service, Content Fragments allow you to design, create, curate, and publish page-independent content. They allow you to prepare content ready for use in multiple locations, and over multiple channels, ideal for headless delivery, and page authoring.
Content fragments in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as a Cloud Service are created and managed as page-independent assets, allowing you to create channel-neutral content, together with (possibly channel-specific) variations. You can use these fragments, and their variations, when authoring your content pages.