Prevent toggleBtn and menu from toggling on list item click in JavaScript

on Clicking the list items when the toggleBtn is active, then active class is removed from toggleBtn and menu class, I am not able to understand the reason for this behaviour, I have tried stopPropogation in js file, but its not working, I have also tried pointer-events in css file, but its of no use

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Document</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>

<body>
    <ul class="menu">
        <div class="toggleBtn">
            <ion-icon name="close-outline"></ion-icon>
        </div>
        <li style="--x:0">
            <a href=""> <ion-icon name="settings-outline"></ion-icon></a>
        </li>
        <li style="--x:1">
            <a href=""> <ion-icon name="mail-outline"></ion-icon></a>
        </li>

        <li style="--x:2">
            <a href=""><ion-icon name="videocam-outline"></ion-icon></a>
        </li>

        <li style="--x:3">
            <a href=""><ion-icon name="build-outline"></ion-icon></a>
        </li>
        <li style="--x:4">
            <a href="">
                <ion-icon name="game-controller-outline"></ion-icon>
            </a>
        </li>
        <li style="--x:5"><a href="">
                <ion-icon name="camera-outline"></ion-icon>
            </a></li>
        <li style="--x:6">
            <a href=""><ion-icon name="home-outline"></ion-icon></a>
        </li>
        <li style="--x:7">
            <a href=""><ion-icon name="person-outline"></ion-icon></a>
        </li>
    </ul>

    <script type="module" src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/ionicons/ionicons.esm.js"></script>
    <script nomodule src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/ionicons/ionicons.js"></script>
    <script src="script.js"></script>
</body>

</html>
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* {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    box-sizing: border-box;
}

body{
    background: #222327;
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
    min-height: 100vh;
}

.menu{
    position: relative;
    width: 300px;
    height: 300px;
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
}

.menu .toggleBtn{
    position: absolute;
    width: 55px;
    height: 55px;
    color: #0f0;
    border: 2px solid #0f0;
    border-radius: 50%;
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
    cursor: pointer;
    font-size: 3em;
    transition: 0.5s;
}

.menu .toggleBtn.active{
    transform: rotate(315deg);
    background: #0f0;
    color: #222327;
}

.menu li{
    position: absolute;
    left: 10px;
    list-style: none;
    transform-origin: 140px;
    border: 2px solid #0f0;
    border-radius: 50%;
    transform: rotate(calc(360deg / 8 * var(--x))) translateX(40px);
    z-index: 10;
    pointer-events: none;
    scale: 0;
    transition: 0.5s;
    transition-delay: calc(0.1s * var(--x))
}

.menu.active li{
    scale: 1;
    pointer-events: initials;
}

.menu li a{
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
    align-items: center;
    width: 45px;
    height: 45px;
    font-size: 1.75em;
    color: #0f0;
    transition: 0.5s;
    transform: rotate(calc(360deg / -8 * var(--x)));
}

.menu li.active a{
    background: #0f0;
    color: #222327;
}
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let menuToggle = document.querySelector('.toggleBtn');
let menu = document.querySelector('.menu');
let list = document.querySelectorAll('li');

menuToggle.onclick = () => {
    menu.classList.toggle('active');
    menuToggle.classList.toggle('active');
}


list.forEach(item => item.addEventListener('click',
    function () {
        list.forEach(i => i.classList.remove('active'));
        this.classList.add('active');
}))

I want that on clicking the list items, it should not toggle the toggleBtn and menu