Rails 6 - <%= link_to %> Is Not Opening Modal to Confirm Deletion and Just Deleting, How to Ensure Confirmation Before Deletion?

Question

I'm currently facing a problem in my project. I'm on Rails 6.0.4.8 and Ruby 2.6.8.

The issue I'm running into is that I would like a user to be able to delete a notes record by clicking on an icon but when they click on this icon, I'd like this to open up a modal that asks them "Are you sure you want to delete this note?"

However the modal isn't popping up and it's going straight to deleting the record: NotesController's destroy method. This is the code in my views that I'm trying to fix:

# Where note is being passed in because I am iterating through @notes.each |note| to create <tr> elements with link_to's
# Using FontAwesome and SweetAlert
<%= link_to '<i class="fa fa-remove text-danger"></i>'.html_safe, note_path(note),
                                method: :delete,  data: {
                                    confirm: 'Are you sure you want to delete this note?',
                                    :'confirm-button-text' => 'Yes, delete this note',
                                    :'cancel-button-text' => 'No, keep this note',
                                    :'confirm-button-color' => '#BA3525',
                                    :'sweet-alert-type' => 'warning',
                            } %>

This is resulting in the confirmation modal never appearing.

I've tried:

• changing link_to to button_to but this just erases the icon from appearing and still results in the modal not popping up.
• wrapping data inside form like so: form: { data: confirm: 'Are you sure?' }
• changing confirm to turbo_confirm (obviously didn't work, but was a longshot because that works for me in Rails 7)

Nothing works so far and I'd like some help ensuring a confirmation before any deletion.