---
title: "Emoji Dropdown Menu"
description: "A searchable emoji picker for Tiptap editors triggered by colon with intelligent filtering, keyboard navigation, and fallback image support."
canonical_url: "https://tiptap.dev/docs/ui-components/components/emoji-dropdown-menu"
---

# Emoji Dropdown Menu

A searchable emoji picker for Tiptap editors triggered by colon with intelligent filtering, keyboard navigation, and fallback image support.

A fully accessible emoji dropdown menu for Tiptap editors. Provides intelligent emoji suggestions as you type with the `:` trigger character, offering seamless emoji insertion with keyboard navigation support.

> **Interactive demo:** [emoji dropdown menu](https://template.tiptap.dev/preview/tiptap-ui/emoji-dropdown-menu)

## Installation

Add the component via the Tiptap CLI:

```bash
npx @tiptap/cli@latest add emoji-dropdown-menu
```

## Components

### `<EmojiDropdownMenu />`

A prebuilt React component that provides emoji suggestions triggered by typing `:`.

#### Usage

```tsx
import * as React from 'react'
import { EditorContent, EditorContext, useEditor } from '@tiptap/react'

// --- Tiptap Core Extensions ---
import { StarterKit } from '@tiptap/starter-kit'
import { Emoji, gitHubEmojis } from '@tiptap/extension-emoji'

// --- Tiptap UI ---
import { EmojiDropdownMenu } from '@/components/tiptap-ui/emoji-dropdown-menu'

// --- Tiptap Node ---
import '@/components/tiptap-node/code-block-node/code-block-node.scss'
import '@/components/tiptap-node/paragraph-node/paragraph-node.scss'

export const EmojiDropdownMenuExample = () => {
  const editor = useEditor({
    immediatelyRender: false,
    extensions: [
      StarterKit,
      Emoji.configure({
        emojis: gitHubEmojis,
        forceFallbackImages: true,
      }),
    ],
    content: `
        <p>Try typing <code>:</code> to open the emoji dropdown menu.</p>
        `,
  })

  return (
    <EditorContext.Provider value={{ editor }}>
      <EmojiDropdownMenu char=":" />
      <EditorContent editor={editor} />
    </EditorContext.Provider>
  )
}
```

#### Props

The `EmojiDropdownMenu` inherits all props from [SuggestionMenuProps](https://tiptap.dev/docs/ui-components/utils-components/suggestion-menu.md#props).