emoji-picker's Introduction

Emoji Picker

😍 😜 😂 😛 Instantly add Emoji support to input fields on your website! 💥 ✨ 👍 🤘

Demo: http://one-signal.github.io/emoji-picker/

#You get:

Input fields converted to contenteditable rich text areas with emoji support
A happy face icon on the top right of each rich text area, which brings up the menu on click
An emoji selection menu, with recently selected emojis at the top (thanks to angular-emoji-popup's author)
Text area values can be easily converted between Unicode and HTML (Unicode+Image Tags)

#What happens under the hood:

When you call new EmojiPicker().discover(), all elements with the data attribute data-emojiable="true" are found, a contenteditable div is created after each one, and the original input field is hidden.
When you type text into this contenteditable div, events are triggered upon each keypress/text change as well as each emoji selection, and the contents of this contenteditable div are copied to the original (now hidden) input field
Text entered into this contenteditable div is plain text; selected emojis are actually <img> tags
To get the value of the contenteditable div, call element.val() on the underlying hidden input field. The <img> emojis will be converted into Unicode emojis (plain text)

#Credits: This is a slightly modified version of angular-emoji-popup, which was written based on jquery-emojiarea (converts input fields to rich emoji input areas) and uses nanoScrollerJs (for the popup's custom-skinned scrollbar). This version removes AngularJS as a dependency.

#Improvements from the original forks:

The top-right smiley face that allows you to bring up the emoji picker menu
The smiley face shifts left appropriately when text entered exceeds the height and causes a scrollbar to appear
The maxlength property of input fields is respected (emoji selections count as a single character)
CSS classes from the original input field are copied over to the new contenteditable div

We built this to power emoji selection for OneSignal, our multi-platform push notification service.

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