id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc focuses 31517 Customizer: show a notice after attempting to navigate to external links in live previews designsimply westonruter "The Customizer only allows you to click internal, front-end links within a preview to navigate to URLs you can customize: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/wp-admin/js/customize-controls.js#L2110 Clicking on an external link from the live preview pane fails silently. To help avoid confusion, we could display a notice to alert when someone clicks on an external link in a live preview: > You can only preview internal, front-end links in the customizer. Here is a past description of how a customizer notice could work from @westonruter: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/30677#comment:7 (different use case, but the part about how the alert might work is relevant) #29098 provides a general mechanism for sending back error codes/messages." enhancement accepted normal 4.7 Customize normal has-patch needs-testing ui, javascript