Title: External links from theme customizer.php iframe
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# External links from theme customizer.php iframe

 *  [roibot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roibot/)
 * (@roibot)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-links-from-theme-customizerphp-iframe/)
 * Hi,
 * Can any on assiste with this, it is fairly technical. The new theme customizer
   is very useful, however, for some reason it does seem to restrict external links
   from operating, I don’t know how exactly probably something burred in the customizer
   javascript.
 * This is fine, most of the time, but as the site is previewed in the admin back
   end, the ‘edit’ links are shown on pages / posts, however I think these are treated
   as external links and so clicking on edit does nothing, it would be really useful
   for them to actually trigger the page edit screen ( although I guess it might
   get messy as then it would be framing itself – so perhaps opening a new tab –
   or perhaps asking ‘do you really want to leave the customizer’ and closing it
   jumping to the admin back end)
 * SO the ‘not working’ of edit is probably there for good reason, but any one know
   how it could be a bit more user friendly than the edit button just not working,
   or alternatively, the edit link not being shown in the customizer preview?
 * Alan

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