# Unable to delete elements

**URL:** <https://community.weweb.io/t/unable-to-delete-elements/21189>\
**Category:** Ask us anything\
**Created:** [May 12, 2026, 2:02am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/unable-to-delete-elements/21189 "2026-05-12T02:02:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![SynopsisLabs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@SynopsisLabs](https://community.weweb.io/u/SynopsisLabs)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 2:02am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/unable-to-delete-elements/21189/1 "2026-05-12T02:02:06Z")

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Hi,

I have some elements under a List item that I cannot delete. I was in the process of creating a nested list and had added the bindings to the first set of text items and then started working on the second list when I stopped getting a response. I did a hard refresh on the page and somce Collection items have been added with a child text Element and I cannot delete them.

Also, all the bindings that I had added to the first List have been deleted.

This is the second time this has happened in the last 20 minutes. When it first happened, I restored yesterday backup and started again on to have the issue repeat itself.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/3X/6/0/60040ac153c816d747f04fac277b8a1ab29892fb.png)

Would appreciate any assistance as I am stuck.

Thanks  
Steve

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**Author:** ![jptrinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/jptrinh/32/1493_2.png) [@jptrinh](https://community.weweb.io/u/jptrinh)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 8:27am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/unable-to-delete-elements/21189/2 "2026-05-12T08:27:15Z")

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Hey @SynopsisLabs 👋  
The circle arrows next to an element on the Layout panel means that the items are repeated. You can see the [documentation](https://docs.weweb.io/binding-filtering/binding-repeating-items.html) on that subject.

 ![CleanShot 2026-05-12 at 10.21.07](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/3X/a/0/a0a681cf421c38a5a34f266eff972bea79d852e0.jpeg)

What that means is that the number of items cannot be controlled like you did but rather on the parent list on the Repeat Items property.

 ![CleanShot 2026-05-12 at 10.24.47](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/3X/2/b/2befff9e9182902d46e53fa7309e9f61c338756a.png)

You can even set data statically there if you don’t need backend response or to debug.

Let us know if that unlocks you 🙂

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**Author:** ![SynopsisLabs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@SynopsisLabs](https://community.weweb.io/u/SynopsisLabs)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 9:32am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/unable-to-delete-elements/21189/3 "2026-05-12T09:32:40Z")

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Thanks but just don’t understand where the Collection List elements appeared from after the refresh.

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**Author:** ![jptrinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/jptrinh/32/1493_2.png) [@jptrinh](https://community.weweb.io/u/jptrinh)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 10:34am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/unable-to-delete-elements/21189/4 "2026-05-12T10:34:54Z")

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I think if you remove the binding from a dynamic collection, by default you’ll have those Collection items. So refresh might have had an impact there