Safari won't let me delete favorites

I keep trying to delete my favorites from Safari and when I click the little red dot with the line through it, then click delete, nothing happens. It's as if I didn't do anything at all. I've already tried turning off sync and turning it back on, I've tried turning off iCloud, I've tried deleting bookmarks on another device. I don't know if there's something I'm not doing, but it's annoying. Please help.