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Icon and emoji search #99
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Thanks for suggesting! Definitely possible, and we might bring it back at some point. We skipped it due to time constraints when finishing the documentation site and getting everything ready for a release in November, but once I have some more time on my hands, we look into bringing it back. In the meantime, please use Material's icon search, as you mentioned
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[-]Request for icon sets / emoji search feature[/-][+]Icon and emoji search[/+]on Apr 18, 2026 Sounds good! Thank you for the quick response, and please feel free to close this issue out or keep open as you see fit.
Zensical Studio has completions for icons and emojis, including custom ones. However, it doesn't show them yet, since SVGs cannot be rendered in previews. We'll see how we can make them work nonetheless, because this would mean you would have icon completions exactly when you need them – right in your editor. We'll leave this issue open until Zensical Studio can render them.
Reacted by Sebastian Stange
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The Material for MkDocs documentation page had a feature to search the emoji / icon database with copyable links that I found myself using very frequently while writing documentation. I know that the current Zensical docs have links to individual searches for the various included icon sets; however, this approach has two issues:
:fontawesome-<icon pack>-<icon name>:for something like:fontawesome-brands-confluence:).A workaround for this is to use the existing Material for MkDocs emoji / icon search, but that doesn't cover all of the Zensical icon sets (e.g. Lucide).
Would it be possible to add this feature to the Zensical docs for all of the included icon / emoji sets?
Please note that I did search all issues in Zensical and Zensical docs as well as the public backlog and did not find anything related to this before creating the issue.
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I traced some of the Material for MkDocs icon / emoji search div and found my way over to the Javascript overrides for icon search query and icon search result. My understanding is that additional Javascript and overrides are currently possible in Zensical, but I am not well versed in Javascript, so I am not sure if it's a fairly simple lift-and-shift to the Zensical docs or more complex.
I apologize, but due to this lack of front-end development knowledge, I will not reasonably be able to contribute a PR to help with this.
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