Emoji Mart is a Slack-like customizable
emoji picker component for React
Demo • Changelog




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Installation

npm install --save emoji-mart

Components

Picker

import 'emoji-mart/css/emoji-mart.css'
import { Picker } from 'emoji-mart'

<Picker set='emojione' />
<Picker onClick={this.addEmoji} />
<Picker title='Pick your emoji…' emoji='point_up' />
<Picker style={{ position: 'absolute', bottom: '20px', right: '20px' }} />
<Picker i18n={{ search: 'Recherche', categories: { search: 'Résultats de recherche', recent: 'Récents' } }} />

Prop	Required	Default	Description
autoFocus		false	Auto focus the search input when mounted
color		#ae65c5	The top bar anchors select and hover color
emoji		department_store	The emoji shown when no emojis are hovered, set to an empty string to show nothing
include		[]	Only load included categories. Accepts I18n categories keys. Order will be respected, except for the recent category which will always be the first.
exclude		[]	Don't load excluded categories. Accepts I18n categories keys.
custom		[]	Custom emojis
recent			Pass your own frequently used emojis as array of string IDs
emojiSize		24	The emoji width and height
onClick			Params: (emoji, event) => {}
onSkinChange			Params: (skin) => {}
perLine		9	Number of emojis per line. While there’s no minimum or maximum, this will affect the picker’s width. This will set Frequently Used length as well (perLine * 4)
i18n		{…}	An object containing localized strings
native		false	Renders the native unicode emoji
set		apple	The emoji set: 'apple', 'google', 'twitter', 'emojione', 'messenger', 'facebook'
sheetSize		64	The emoji sheet size: 16, 20, 32, 64
backgroundImageFn		((set, sheetSize) => …)	A Fn that returns that image sheet to use for emojis. Useful for avoiding a request if you have the sheet locally.
emojisToShowFilter		((emoji) => true)	A Fn to choose whether an emoji should be displayed or not
showPreview		true	Display preview section
showSkinTones		true	Display skin tones picker
emojiTooltip		false	Show emojis short name when hovering (title)
skin			Forces skin color: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
defaultSkin		1	Default skin color: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
style			Inline styles applied to the root element. Useful for positioning
title		Emoji Mart™	The title shown when no emojis are hovered

I18n

search: 'Search',
notfound: 'No Emoji Found',
categories: {
  search: 'Search Results',
  recent: 'Frequently Used',
  people: 'Smileys & People',
  nature: 'Animals & Nature',
  foods: 'Food & Drink',
  activity: 'Activity',
  places: 'Travel & Places',
  objects: 'Objects',
  symbols: 'Symbols',
  flags: 'Flags',
  custom: 'Custom',
}

Sheet sizes

Sheets are served from unpkg, a global CDN that serves files published to npm.

Set	sheetSize	Size
apple	16	334 KB
apple	20	459 KB
apple	32	1.08 MB
apple	64	2.94 MB
emojione	16	315 KB
emojione	20	435 KB
emojione	32	1020 KB
emojione	64	2.33 MB
facebook	16	322 KB
facebook	20	439 KB
facebook	32	1020 KB
facebook	64	2.5 MB
google	16	301 KB
google	20	409 KB
google	32	907 KB
google	64	2.17 MB
messenger	16	325 KB
messenger	20	449 MB
messenger	32	1.05 MB
messenger	64	2.69 MB
twitter	16	288 KB
twitter	20	389 KB
twitter	32	839 KB
twitter	64	1.82 MB

Examples of emoji object:

{
  id: 'smiley',
  name: 'Smiling Face with Open Mouth',
  colons: ':smiley:',
  text: ':)',
  emoticons: [
    '=)',
    '=-)'
  ],
  skin: null,
  native: '😃'
}

{
  id: 'santa',
  name: 'Father Christmas',
  colons: ':santa::skin-tone-3:',
  text: '',
  emoticons: [],
  skin: 3,
  native: '🎅🏼'
}

{
  id: 'octocat',
  name: 'Octocat',
  colons: ':octocat',
  text: '',
  emoticons: [],
  custom: true,
  imageUrl: 'https://assets-cdn.github.com/images/icons/emoji/octocat.png?v7'
}

Emoji

import { Emoji } from 'emoji-mart'

<Emoji emoji={{ id: 'santa', skin: 3 }} size={16} />
<Emoji emoji=':santa::skin-tone-3:' size={16} />
<Emoji emoji='santa' set='emojione' size={16} />

Prop	Required	Default	Description
emoji	✓		Either a string or an emoji object
size	✓		The emoji width and height.
native		false	Renders the native unicode emoji
onClick			Params: (emoji, event) => {}
onLeave			Params: (emoji, event) => {}
onOver			Params: (emoji, event) => {}
fallback			Params: (emoji) => {}
set		apple	The emoji set: 'apple', 'google', 'twitter', 'emojione'
sheetSize		64	The emoji sheet size: 16, 20, 32, 64
backgroundImageFn		((set, sheetSize) => `https://unpkg.com/emoji-datasource@3.0.0/sheet_${set}_${sheetSize}.png`)	A Fn that returns that image sheet to use for emojis. Useful for avoiding a request if you have the sheet locally.
skin		1	Skin color: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
tooltip		false	Show emoji short name when hovering (title)
html		false	Returns an HTML string to use with dangerouslySetInnerHTML

Unsupported emojis fallback

Certain sets don’t support all emojis (i.e. Messenger & Facebook don’t support :shrug:). By default the Emoji component will not render anything so that the emojis’ don’t take space in the picker when not available. When using the standalone Emoji component, you can however render anything you want by providing the fallback props.

To have the component render :shrug: you would need to:

<Emoji
  set={'messenger'}
  emoji={'shrug'}
  size={24}
  fallback={(emoji) => {
    return `:${emoji.short_names[0]}:`
  }}
/>

Using with dangerouslySetInnerHTML

The Emoji component being a functional component, you can call it as you would call any function instead of using JSX. Make sure you pass html: true for it to return an HTML string.

<span dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
  __html: Emoji({
    html: true
    set: 'apple'
    emoji: '+1'
    size: 24
  })
}}></span>

Using with contentEditable

Following the dangerouslySetInnerHTML example above, make sure the wrapping span sets contenteditable="false".

<div contentEditable={true}>
  Looks good to me

  <span contentEditable={false} dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
    __html: Emoji({
      html: true
      set: 'apple'
      emoji: '+1'
      size: 24
    })
  }}></span>
</div>

Custom emojis

You can provide custom emojis which will show up in their own category.

import { Picker } from 'emoji-mart'

const customEmojis = [
  {
    name: 'Octocat',
    short_names: ['octocat'],
    text: '',
    emoticons: [],
    keywords: ['github'],
    imageUrl: 'https://assets-cdn.github.com/images/icons/emoji/octocat.png?v7'
  },
]

<Picker custom={customEmojis} />

Headless search

The Picker doesn’t have to be mounted for you to take advantage of the advanced search results.

import { emojiIndex } from 'emoji-mart'

emojiIndex.search('christmas').map((o) => o.native)
// => [🎄, 🎅🏼, 🔔, 🎁, ⛄️, ❄️]

Storage

By default EmojiMart will store user chosen skin and frequently used emojis in localStorage. That can however be overwritten should you want to store these in your own storage.

import { store } from 'emoji-mart'

store.setHandlers({
  getter: (key) => {
    // Get from your own storage (sync)
  },

  setter: (key, value) => {
    // Persist in your own storage (can be async)
  }
})

Possible keys are:

Key	Value	Description
skin	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
frequently	{ 'astonished': 11, '+1': 22 }	An object where the key is the emoji name and the value is the usage count
last	'astonished'	(Optional) Used by frequently to be sure the latest clicked emoji will always appear in the “Recent” category

Features

Powerful search

Short name, name and keywords

Not only does Emoji Mart return more results than most emoji picker, they’re more accurate and sorted by relevance.

Emoticons

The only emoji picker that returns emojis when searching for emoticons.

Results intersection

For better results, Emoji Mart split search into words and only returns results matching both terms.

Fully customizable

Anchors color, title and default emoji

Emojis sizes and length

Default skin color

As the developer, you have control over which skin color is used by default.

It can however be overwritten as per user preference.

Multiple sets supported

Apple / Google / Twitter / EmojiOne / Messenger / Facebook

Not opinionated

Emoji Mart doesn’t automatically insert anything into a text input, nor does it show or hide itself. It simply returns an emoji object. It’s up to the developer to mount/unmount (it’s fast!) and position the picker. You can use the returned object as props for the EmojiMart.Emoji component. You could also use emoji.colons to insert text into a textarea or emoji.native to use the emoji.

Development

$ yarn build
$ yarn start
$ yarn storybook

🎩 Hat tips!

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🙌🏼  Cal Henderson.

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