# Put an emoji in the category

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/put-an-emoji-in-the-category/155172
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 17, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/put-an-emoji-in-the-category/155172 "2020-06-17T22:01:44Z")
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### Author: ![jenni\_alencar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jenni_alencar/32/169068_2.png) [@jenni\_alencar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jenni_alencar)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/put-an-emoji-in-the-category/155172/1 "2020-06-17T22:01:44Z")

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How can I put on the title of a category? ahahha

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/put-an-emoji-in-the-category/155172/2 "2020-06-17T22:03:27Z")

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AFAIK emoji can’t be used in category names, but you can use this:

> [@Category Icons](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-icons-component/104683):
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> warning This theme component is deprecated and should no longer be used. Its features are now in Discourse Core (see: [Bringing popular features to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bringing-popular-features-to-discourse-header-search-welcome-banner-and-category-icons-emoji/359169)). For private category icon customization, refer to [this topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-aliases-for-replacing-lock-icons-on-closed-topics-and-restricted-categories/373778). discourse2Summary Category Icons allows category badge links to have icons next to the category name.eyeglassesPreview [Preview on Discourse Theme Creator](https://discourse.theme-creator.io/theme/Discourse/category-icons)hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-category-icons](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-category-icons) …

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### Author: ![jenni\_alencar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jenni_alencar/32/169068_2.png) [@jenni\_alencar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jenni_alencar)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/put-an-emoji-in-the-category/155172/3 "2020-06-17T22:04:36Z")

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![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/b/0b4371f2d83847211c5b1f1cb14ae1a860021b67.png)

but I did this and I dont remember how ahahhahaha

I think was a different way of this you send to me haha

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### Author: ![Steven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/steven/32/187890_2.png) [@Steven](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steven)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 10:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/put-an-emoji-in-the-category/155172/4 "2020-06-17T22:17:17Z")

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You can use any emoji supported by browsers, it is totally supported, I use emojipedia to copy/paste them : [https://emojipedia.org/](https://emojipedia.org/)

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 10:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/put-an-emoji-in-the-category/155172/5 "2020-07-17T22:29:26Z")

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