ExtJS has several built-in Container classes - classes which can contain one or more other Ext.Components (such as Grids, Forms, other Panels, etc). The most obvious example of a Container is the Ext.Panel class, along with its subclasses such as Ext.TabPanel, Ext.form.FormPanel and Ext.Window. With each container class you can add a bunch of components, like this:

//a child component to be added to the container below
var myComponent = new Ext.Panel({html: 'component 1'});

//Ext.Panel is a subclass of Ext.Container
var myPanel = new Ext.Panel({
  items: [
    myComponent,
    {html: 'component 2'},
    {html: 'component 3'}
  ]
});

Which will just create a Panel with three other Panels as its child components ('panel' is the default xtype, so we don't have to specify it). More to the point, you can add and remove components from the Container like this: