Techniques are disclosed for providing visual path resolution in a context separated authoring environment of a REST- and component-based content management system. A web page editor is activated for editing a web page having a plurality of Document Object Model components. A structured document is generated and configured to present the web page components and at least a portion of the web page editor in a common frame of a browser window, as well as visual indications of regions of the web page that contain one or more of the components. In response to receiving an input that selects one of the components, the structured document is updated to present information about a property of the selected component, such as a path to a location of the selected component and/or a type of the selected component, in the same region of the web page that contains the selected component.