{"id":19018598,"date":"2026-09-12T22:37:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/link-dropdown-controls-unresponsive-checklist-min-js-typeerror\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T22:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:37:59","slug":"link-dropdown-controls-unresponsive-checklist-min-js-typeerror","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/link-dropdown-controls-unresponsive-checklist-min-js-typeerror\/","title":{"rendered":"Link\/dropdown controls unresponsive \u2014 checklist.min.js TypeError"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elementor version: 4.2.4<br \/>WordPress version: 7.1<br \/>PHP version: 7.4.33<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When editing widgets (e.g. Heading), the plain text &#8220;Title&#8221; field works normally, but the &#8220;Link&#8221; field and &#8220;Size&#8221; dropdown do not respond at all \u2014 no network request fires when clicking into them, and they never accept input.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Console error on every page load in the editor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading &#8216;parentElement&#8217;)<br \/>at ToggleIcon.apply (checklist.min.js?ver=4.2.4:2:47938)<br \/>at ToggleIcon.run (web-cli.min.js?ver=4.2.4:2:96576)<br \/>at Commands.runInstance (web-cli.min.js?ver=4.2.4:2:27841)<br \/>at Commands.run (web-cli.min.js?ver=4.2.4:2:27683)<br \/>at checklist.min.js?ver=4.2.4:2:50250<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Already tried, no change:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Disabled &#8220;Inline Font Icons&#8221; and &#8220;Element Caching&#8221; in Elementor &gt; Settings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deactivated all other plugins except Elementor and WPForms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tested in an incognito window<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Confirmed no admin-ajax.php request fires when clicking the Link field<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This matches other reports of the same error (wordpress.org\/support\/?p=18912673, ?p=18922440). Any workaround or fix available?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19018598","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-editor"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19018598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19018598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19018598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}