System and method for smart interaction between website components

A website building system includes at least one database storing website components and their associated component hierarchies, each component comprising overridable parameterized-behavior elements, non-overridable parameterized-behavior elements and a data handler, the data handler handling override protocols for the components; and an element handler to review all components to be rendered for a current view and for a current component, to handle a communication request between the current component and at least one other component within the component hierarchy in order to implement an override request from the at least one other component, the element handler to update the current component only if the override request is related to an overridable parameterized-behavior element of the current component according to the data handler of the current component.