diff --git a/code/frameworks/vue3-vite/src/plugins/vue-component-meta.ts b/code/frameworks/vue3-vite/src/plugins/vue-component-meta.ts
index c7218e328fc6..175ea0a2cfd9 100644
--- a/code/frameworks/vue3-vite/src/plugins/vue-component-meta.ts
+++ b/code/frameworks/vue3-vite/src/plugins/vue-component-meta.ts
@@ -271,5 +271,11 @@ async function getTsConfigReferences(tsConfigPath: string) {
  */
 function removeNestedSchemas(schema: PropertyMetaSchema) {
   if (typeof schema !== 'object') return;
+  if (schema.kind === 'enum') {
+    // for enum types, we do not want to remove the schemas because otherwise the controls will be missing
+    // instead we remove the nested schemas for the enum entries to prevent out of memory errors for types like "HTMLElement | MouseEvent"
+    schema.schema?.forEach((enumSchema) => removeNestedSchemas(enumSchema));
+    return;
+  }
   delete schema.schema;
 }