# Visual editing now works in sidebar previews too

[date: 2026-08-10T09:29:40.366+02:00]

Until now, using [Visual Editing](https://www.datocms.com/features/visual-editing.md) meant clicking something in your preview and jumping straight to the record that renders it. It only lived in the iframe inside the plugin's **Visual** tab.

Now you can turn it on in the sidebar preview in the **Content** tab as well 👀

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Click an element in the preview and you land right on `/editor/item_types/<id>/items/<id>` within the exact field behind it without hunting through the tree.

A few things worth knowing:

-   It's a **per-user toggle, off by default:** each editor flips it on for themselves, so it won't change anyone else's setup.
-   When the toggle is on, the sidebar loads the draft-mode preview URL (that's what visual editing needs to hook into).
    
-   If the selected preview link's frontend doesn't support visual editing, the toggle stays visible but disabled, with a tooltip explaining why.
    

Under the hood it's the same Content Link machinery that already powers the Visual tab, just wired into the sidebar frame, so [refer to the docs to set up Visual Editing](https://www.datocms.com/docs/visual-editing.md).