Fix emoji’s are cut in half when in Edit message mode

[bernhardoj]

Details

The emoji is enlarged when the composer only contains emoji, but we didn't increase the line height for edit composer.

Fixed Issues

$ #42530
PROPOSAL: #42530 (comment)

Tests

Same as QA Steps

• Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

Offline tests

Same as QA Steps

QA Steps

1. Open any chat
2. Send an emoji only message
3. Long-press/right-click on the message and choose Edit message
4. Verify the emoji isn't cut in half

• Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

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[dubielzyk-expensify]

Looks close to me, but what's going on here?

The X button isn't centered in the compose bar like it is before you edit which is what we'd like to happen :)

[shawnborton]

Also, it seems like this has some overlap with @kbieganowski's PR over here?

[shawnborton]

Even in normal compose mode, adding just one emoji shouldn't cause the composer to grow like this:

[kbieganowski]

Also, it seems like this has some overlap with @kbieganowski's PR over here?

Thanks for pointing this out @shawnborton! Can confirm that this is not an issue in PR you mentioned:

Screen.Recording.2024-05-27.at.08.57.30.mov

Screen.Recording.2024-05-27.at.09.07.25.mov

[bernhardoj]

The X button isn't centered in the compose bar like it is before you edit which is what we'd like to happen

The X button is always aligned to the bottom for edit composer

Even in normal compose mode, adding just one emoji shouldn't cause the composer to grow like this:

The bigger font size and line height increase the composer's height. It happens on prod too btw.

Also, it seems like this has some overlap with @kbieganowski's #40692?

Yeah, there is an overlap with that PR.

[Ollyws]

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[Ollyws]

LGTM.

[rlinoz]

Codewise it looks good, but I triggered a build so @shawnborton and @dubielzyk-expensify can review it as well.

[shawnborton]

Oof, I really hate how much the composer changes when just one emoji is in there, but it looks like that already exists on production:

So from the videos, it seems like this at least makes it so that the edit message composer matches the normal composer at the bottom.

That being said, are we handling the emoji size/line height elsewhere? I wouldn't expect one single emoji to make the composer jump so much - I would think we'd maintain the same 20px line height as a normal message, but increase the font size of the emoji.

[bernhardoj]

are we handling the emoji size/line height elsewhere?

I'm not aware of any issue that handles this.

I would think we'd maintain the same 20px line height as a normal message, but increase the font size of the emoji.

If we don't increase the line height, then the emoji will be cut in half again.

Maybe we should readjust the emoji-only font size (and the line height)

But I see that in #40692, we reduce the composer padding bottom to 0 and top padding to 7, thus reducing the height, so it will look like this.

[shawnborton]

I'm not sure how this works on other platforms but by simply adding display: block to the emoji and giving it a line height of 20px, we get expected results:

Thoughts on something like that?

[shawnborton]

Even the cursor appears centered :)

[bernhardoj]

We can't do that on iOS, otherwise it will be cut in half. Maybe we should apply the increased line-height for native only?

[shawnborton]

I think whatever the solution is, ideally it doesn't increase the composer height anywhere. Can you think of other approaches?

Also just to confirm, the increased emoji line height already exists on production, right? So I mean one approach could be to just get this PR wrapped up so that the Edit behavior is the same as the compose behavior, and then we can fix the emoji line height in the other PR that is being worked on for emojis here.

[bernhardoj]

Yeah, it already exists in production. #40692 reduce the composer padding (not sure if it's the best way, but I can't think of other approaches) so the height will be normal as I pointed out in my previous comment here, so we can wrap this PR.

Btw, I just refactored the code to reduce the conflict with #40692

[shawnborton]

Sounds good, thank you!

[parasharrajat]

@Ollyws Could you please test this again?

[Ollyws]

Still tests well.

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