Textarea with Emoji Insertion

Written by @kerixa 26 February 2021

Textareas are used when writing long texts or paragraphs. However, they are not attractive and do not transmit emotions without emojis. Suppose a situation where a user wants to express his/her feelings in a chat or comment. Therefore, it is a need to develop a textarea with capability to insert emojis. The following code shows how to do it in an easy way.

Code Snippet:

                                                
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<style>
body {
    background: linear-gradient(313deg, rgba(238,238,238,1) 0%, rgba(240,239,210,1) 100%);
}

* {
    box-sizing: border-box;
}

.center {
    position: absolute;
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;
    -ms-transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
    transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}

.container {
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
    align-items: center;
}

.emoji {
    font-size: 30px;
    position: relative;
    cursor: pointer;
    margin-left: 10px;
}

    .emoji > span {
        padding: 10px;
        border: 1px solid transparent;
        transition: 100ms linear;
    }

    .emoji span:hover {
        background-color: #fff;
        border-radius: 4px;
        border: 1px solid #e7e7e7;
        box-shadow: 0 7px 14px 0 rgb(0 0 0 / 12%);
    }

#emoji-picker {
    padding: 6px;
    font-size: 20px;
    z-index: 1;
    position: absolute;
    display: none;
    width: 189px;
    border-radius: 4px;
    top: 53px;
    right: 0;
    background: #fff;
    border: 1px solid #e7e7e7;
    box-shadow: 0 7px 14px 0 rgb(0 0 0 / 12%);
}

    #emoji-picker span {
        cursor: pointer;
        width: 35px;
        height: 35px;
        display: inline-block;
        text-align: center;
        padding-top: 4px;
    }

        #emoji-picker span:hover {
            background-color: #e7e7e7;
            border-radius: 4px;
        }

.emoji-arrow {
    position: absolute;
    width: 0;
    height: 0;
    top: 0;
    right: 18px;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    border-color: transparent transparent #fff #fff;
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 4px;
    transform-origin: 0 0 0;
    transform: rotate(135deg);
}

#text-area {
    font-family: sans-serif, monospace;
    font-size: 20px;
    min-height: 40px;
    min-width: 500px;
    border-radius: 10px;
    padding: 20px;
    border: 1px solid #c1c1c1;
}

/******************************/

.creator {
    position: fixed;
    right: 5px;
    top: 5px;
    font-size: 13px;
    font-family: sans-serif;
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #111;
}

    .creator:hover {
        color: deeppink;
    }

    .creator i {
        font-size: 12px;
        color: #111;
    }
</style>
<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js'></script>
<div class="center">
    <div class="container">
        <textarea required id="text-area" name="message" placeholder="write..."></textarea>
        <div class="emoji">
            <span>🙂</span>
            <div id="emoji-picker">
                <div class="emoji-arrow"></div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
<script>


var emojiPicker = function () {
    var i = null;
    var index = null;
    var emojiCode = [
        128526,
        128565,
        129299,
        129322,
        128516,
    ];

    for (index = 0; index <= emojiCode.length - 1; index++) {
        document.querySelector("#emoji-picker").innerHTML += "<span class='my-emoji'>" + "&#" + emojiCode[index] + "</span>";
    }

    $(document).on("click", ".my-emoji", function () {
        var textArea = $('#text-area');
        textArea.val(textArea.val() + $(this).text());
        $("#emoji-picker").hide();
        textArea.focus();
    });
}

emojiPicker();

$(".emoji").click(function (e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    $("#emoji-picker").toggle();
});
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About @kerixa

I am Krishna Eydat. I studied Software Engineering at University of Waterloo in Canada. I lead a few tech companies. I am passionate about the way we are connected. I would like to be part of something big or be the big deal!

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