# Trying to open a local page in Visual Editor but can't authenticate

**URL:** <https://forum.builder.io/t/trying-to-open-a-local-page-in-visual-editor-but-cant-authenticate/4093>\
**Category:** Technical Questions\
**Tags:** visual-editor\
**Created:** [August 21, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/trying-to-open-a-local-page-in-visual-editor-but-cant-authenticate/4093 "2023-08-21T18:53:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Luke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Luke](https://forum.builder.io/u/Luke)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/trying-to-open-a-local-page-in-visual-editor-but-cant-authenticate/4093/1 "2023-08-21T18:53:18Z")

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I am trying to integrate [builder.io](http://builder.io) with my company’s react platform, and I’m trying to get the visual editor to work. When I try to go to the page I am using to test, I hit my company’s login page (because all of our pages are behind auth). The thing is, I’m not able to type in the email/password text fields on the page in the visual editor; whenever I click one of the fields, it automatically is unselected. If I type one character at a time, I can get the credentials in the text input, but then when I hit login, it gives me an error regarding “allow-forms”. Has anyone had a similar issue, or know how I can resolve it?

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**Author:** ![anon43891756](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@anon43891756](https://forum.builder.io/u/anon43891756)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/trying-to-open-a-local-page-in-visual-editor-but-cant-authenticate/4093/2 "2023-08-24T15:48:26Z")

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Hi @Luke, Welcome to the [Builder.io](http://Builder.io) Forum!

You can try using the Builder Chrome extension. Refer to [Builder Chrome extension - Builder.io](https://www.builder.io/c/docs/chrome-extension) then enable form submission from model settings.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/builder/original/2X/d/da01633b40a6e3122dcf2ce24db3d64e2fa5acc7.jpeg)

Try this out and let us know if this doesn’t help!

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**Author:** ![saura](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.builder.io/saura/32/3625_2.png) [@saura](https://forum.builder.io/u/saura)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/trying-to-open-a-local-page-in-visual-editor-but-cant-authenticate/4093/3 "2024-05-22T15:07:55Z")

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anything here? Is this issue solved?

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**Author:** ![eddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@eddie](https://forum.builder.io/u/eddie)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/trying-to-open-a-local-page-in-visual-editor-but-cant-authenticate/4093/4 "2024-07-01T22:24:00Z")

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Looking for a solution to this as well. We have a component that is only visible when a user is logged in and even with the extension and enabling the setting suggested, I still can’t login in the preview.