This is a historical week! To start off, I made my contribution to Forem and I got my PR merge by @ben! This is my first PR that is merge to the official Forem Repository and I was so happy! Great first steps!

Z-Index Increase for the Emoji UI #22905

FrancisTRAlt posted on Mar 05, 2026

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

• [ ] Refactor
• [ ] Feature
• [x] Bug Fix
• [ ] Optimization
• [ ] Documentation Update

Description

Fixed the UI issue on the Emoji where you can see the "Like" button over the list of emojis as shown below:

Before:

After:

This also happen in the GIF. It is fixed now:

Before:

After:

Related Tickets & Documents

• Related Issue #22902
• Closes #22902

QA Instructions, Screenshots, Recordings

1. Go on any post on Dev.to.

2. Inspect the element page and look for the class name "crayons-article-actions print-hidden".

3. Change the CSS.

Instead of: z-index: var(z--sticky)

It should be: z-index: 9999

4. Comment out the z-index for this class below:

5. Then scroll and it should be the highest z-index of the page.

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