diff --git a/HellionChat/Ui/SettingsTabs/Chat.cs b/HellionChat/Ui/SettingsTabs/Chat.cs
index 99ee8f9..be246b0 100644
--- a/HellionChat/Ui/SettingsTabs/Chat.cs
+++ b/HellionChat/Ui/SettingsTabs/Chat.cs
@@ -169,6 +169,13 @@ internal sealed class Chat : ISettingsTab
             using (Plugin.FontManager.FontAwesome.Push())
                 ImGui.Button(FontAwesomeIcon.Plus.ToIconString(), new Vector2(buttonWidth, 0));
 
+            // Open the selector popup on left-click; SelectorPopup uses
+            // ImRaii.ContextPopupItem internally which only opens on right-
+            // click otherwise — without this OpenPopup the button looked
+            // active but the popup never appeared on a normal click.
+            if (ImGui.IsItemClicked())
+                ImGui.OpenPopup("WordAddPopup");
+
             if (SearchSelector.SelectorPopup("WordAddPopup", out var newWord, WordPopupOptions))
             {
                 Mutable.BlockedEmotes.Add(newWord);
diff --git a/HellionChat/Util/SearchSelector.cs b/HellionChat/Util/SearchSelector.cs
index 3219467..7d19770 100644
--- a/HellionChat/Util/SearchSelector.cs
+++ b/HellionChat/Util/SearchSelector.cs
@@ -84,7 +84,11 @@ public static class SearchSelector
             foreach (var i in clipper.Rows)
             {
                 var searched = FilteredSearchSheet[i];
-                using var pushedId = ImRaii.PushId(id);
+                // Mix the row index into the ImGui ID so each Selectable in
+                // the loop has a distinct ID — using the same id for every
+                // row collapsed all rows to a single ID-stack entry and made
+                // selection ambiguous.
+                using var pushedId = ImRaii.PushId($"{id}##{i}");
                 if (!drawSelectable(searched, options.IsSelected(searched)))
                     continue;