Scroll through all categories

[dliebner]

It seems the default behavior is to have to click between categories to view all emoji (as opposed to just scrolling through all available emoji). I scanned the docs to see if this is configurable but didn't see anything, can the picker be configured to scroll through all available emoji without having to click between categories?

[nolanlawson]

I know some emoji pickers work this way, but there are performance and accessibility considerations if emoji-picker-element was going to support both modes. For example:

• perf: right now the list of emojis is just rendered (no list virtualization), which is fine for a small number of emoji in a single section but could be slow if we're rendering every emoji ever
• a11y: right now the emojis are modeled semantically as a tabpanel – typically a virtual list is modeled as a feed or list or something similar.

Not saying it couldn't be done, but it would be a big overhaul of the current implementation.

[dliebner]

Gotcha. Thank you for the answer!