Gmail Settings – How to Turn Off Email Icons in Gmail

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I received one actual Google message and at least three spam emails today which displayed an icon of some sort in the subject title. I cannot find an option to turn off this visual noise; some of the icons are even animated!

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Best Answer

Cross-posted to How can I turn off or hide animated emoji icons in subject lines in Gmail?

Short Answer

The Gmail web app doesn't include an option to turn off or hide the animated icons shown in the subject. One way to do this is by using the CSS property {display:none} to elements having the goomoji attribute.

Code

Simplest code
This will hide all the emojis in the Gmail web UI.

[goomoji]{
    display:none;
}

Hide only emojis in the subject (not tested yet)

.y6>span>img[goomoji]{
    display:none;
}

Explanation

Animated icons are called emojis, they were incorporated as UNICODE characters from 2010. As they aren't supported by all computer operating systems and web browsers Gmail replace them by using the attribute goomoji.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used for the presentation of web pages. One of its elements are selectors which are used to specify the presentation settings of HTML elements.

To help users to apply custom CSS, aka user styles, there are extensions for web browsers. One of them is Stylish for Chrome.

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