# Clicking Emoji button results in faded screen and no selector pop-up

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-emoji-button-results-in-faded-screen-and-no-selector-pop-up/23689
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [January 5, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-emoji-button-results-in-faded-screen-and-no-selector-pop-up/23689 "2015-01-05T21:20:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Chili](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chili/32/40331_2.png) [@Chili](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Chili)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-emoji-button-results-in-faded-screen-and-no-selector-pop-up/23689/1 "2015-01-05T21:20:01Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Emoji selector and custom Emoji](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-selector-and-custom-emoji/22725/33):

> [@Emoji selector and custom Emoji](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-selector-and-custom-emoji/22725/33):
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> Not sure if this a reproducible of if it is our particular instance: Two of the admins on my site have encountered a bug where after editing the custom emojis (specifically deleting them), the emoji selector button while posting no longer works. All we get is the screen fading out but the emoji selector pop up doesn’t appear. We have to clear our browser caches for it to work again. We are both on Chrome.

Continuing the discussion from [Emoji selector and custom Emoji](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-selector-and-custom-emoji/22725/34):

> [@Emoji selector and custom Emoji](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-selector-and-custom-emoji/22725/34):
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> I’ve just updated our :discourse: instance. When i’ve added a new custom emoji and then i’ve refreshed the page, by some reason we have the same problem trying to open the emoji selector.
> 
> I’m using Firefox on Mac and the two users i manage are one admin and one mod.
> 
> \<img src=“[//cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/meta/original/3X/2/e/2efcf0b9cdd8cae80db77ca641e33997722a2f12.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/e/2efcf0b9cdd8cae80db77ca641e33997722a2f12.png)” width=“690” height=“443”\>
> 
> Btw, this feature is very cool! Thanks.

This pops up in the logs each time:

```
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'icons' of undefined
Url: http://[forumname].com/assets/application-773b3193b8dbe0047709e10f69a9bc8e.js
Line: 10
Column: 69

```

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-emoji-button-results-in-faded-screen-and-no-selector-pop-up/23689/2 "2015-01-05T21:22:25Z")

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@zogstrip can you have a look at this?

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2015, 9:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-emoji-button-results-in-faded-screen-and-no-selector-pop-up/23689/3 "2015-01-07T09:48:09Z")

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Thanks for reporting that. 🐈

The issue would only happen if you refresh the page and the last group you used was the custom group.

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/66882155f0fbcfe8b8ac89a8f8c91999d32c63d4](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/66882155f0fbcfe8b8ac89a8f8c91999d32c63d4)

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2015, 9:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-emoji-button-results-in-faded-screen-and-no-selector-pop-up/23689/4 "2015-01-07T09:48:12Z")

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