wplink inputs fields not being created

Hello there, I hope you are doing well!

I have one problem with wplink feature (file wp-includes/js/wplink.js)

So I am creating a plugin where on button click modal opens and you choose link for input field (standard wplink feature).

I have created new wp-menu-item where that button is located. When I click a button I get error :

TypeError: p.url.val(...) is undefined   wplink.min.js:1:3051
TypeError: p.url[0] is undefined   wplink.min.js:1:2962

After unminfying wplink file I get error:

TypeError: inputs.url.val(...) is undefined   wplink.min.js:200:30
TypeError: inputs.url[0] is undefined   wplink.min.js:190:6 

So basically inputs.url[0] doesn’t exist. After little bit more debugging I have found out that this works normally on posts/pages but doesn’t work in this custom menu.

Object in posts/pages looks like:

url: {…}
?0: <input id="wp-link-url" type="text" aria-describedby="wplink-enter-url">??
context: HTMLDocument https://
length: 1
selector: "#wp-link-url"
<prototype>: {…

and in custom menu it looks like
url: {…}
context: HTMLDocument https://
?selector: "#wp-link-url"
??<prototype>: {…

So this inputs.url[0] is definitely missing. After a little more checks noticed that all inputs.ObjectKey[0] are missing on this custom menu page (inputs.close[0], inputs.dialog[0], inputs.text[0], etc) but are present on normal pages/posts.

Could someone please give me some idea how to overcome this and actually be able to use wplink.

Thank you for your time!

• This topic was modified 5 years ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).