Simple Click Events

This example demonstrates the use of event listeners. It

listens for the click event on a marker to zoom the map when the marker is clicked.
listens for the center_changed event to pan the map back to the marker after 3 seconds.

TypeScript

function initMap(): void {
  const myLatlng = { lat: -25.363, lng: 131.044 };

  const map = new google.maps.Map(
    document.getElementById("map") as HTMLElement,
    {
      zoom: 4,
      center: myLatlng,
    }
  );

  const marker = new google.maps.Marker({
    position: myLatlng,
    map,
    title: "Click to zoom",
  });

  map.addListener("center_changed", () => {
    // 3 seconds after the center of the map has changed, pan back to the
    // marker.
    window.setTimeout(() => {
      map.panTo(marker.getPosition() as google.maps.LatLng);
    }, 3000);
  });

  marker.addListener("click", () => {
    map.setZoom(8);
    map.setCenter(marker.getPosition() as google.maps.LatLng);
  });
}index.ts

JavaScript

function initMap() {
  const myLatlng = { lat: -25.363, lng: 131.044 };
  const map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
    zoom: 4,
    center: myLatlng,
  });
  const marker = new google.maps.Marker({
    position: myLatlng,
    map,
    title: "Click to zoom",
  });
  map.addListener("center_changed", () => {
    // 3 seconds after the center of the map has changed, pan back to the
    // marker.
    window.setTimeout(() => {
      map.panTo(marker.getPosition());
    }, 3000);
  });
  marker.addListener("click", () => {
    map.setZoom(8);
    map.setCenter(marker.getPosition());
  });
}
index.js

CSS

/* Always set the map height explicitly to define the size of the div
       * element that contains the map. */
#map {
  height: 100%;
}

/* Optional: Makes the sample page fill the window. */
html,
body {
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
style.css

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Simple Click Events</title>
    <script src="https://polyfill.io/v3/polyfill.min.js?features=default"></script>
    <script
      src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=YOUR_API_KEY&callback=initMap&libraries=&v=weekly"
      defer
    ></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script src="./index.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="map"></div>
  </body>
</html>sample.html

All

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Simple Click Events</title>
    <script src="https://polyfill.io/v3/polyfill.min.js?features=default"></script>
    <script
      src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=YOUR_API_KEY&callback=initMap&libraries=&v=weekly"
      defer
    ></script>
    <style type="text/css">
      /* Always set the map height explicitly to define the size of the div
       * element that contains the map. */
      #map {
        height: 100%;
      }

      /* Optional: Makes the sample page fill the window. */
      html,
      body {
        height: 100%;
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
      }
    </style>
    <script>
      function initMap() {
        const myLatlng = { lat: -25.363, lng: 131.044 };
        const map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
          zoom: 4,
          center: myLatlng,
        });
        const marker = new google.maps.Marker({
          position: myLatlng,
          map,
          title: "Click to zoom",
        });
        map.addListener("center_changed", () => {
          // 3 seconds after the center of the map has changed, pan back to the
          // marker.
          window.setTimeout(() => {
            map.panTo(marker.getPosition());
          }, 3000);
        });
        marker.addListener("click", () => {
          map.setZoom(8);
          map.setCenter(marker.getPosition());
        });
      }
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="map"></div>
  </body>
</html>
inline.html

/* Always set the map height explicitly to define the size of the div * element that contains the map. */ #map { height: 100%; } /* Optional: Makes the sample page fill the window. */ html, body { height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; }

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Simple Click Events</title> <script src="https://polyfill.io/v3/polyfill.min.js?features=default"></script> <script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=AIzaSyBIwzALxUPNbatRBj3Xi1Uhp0fFzwWNBkE&callback=initMap&libraries=&v=weekly" defer ></script>  </head> <body> <div id="map"></div> </body> </html>

Create a starter application from sample

A skeleton starter application using TypeScript, Webpack, and Babel can be generated from this sample using one of the methods below.

Run Locally

Node.js is required to run this sample locally. Follow these instructions to install Node.js and NPM.

npx @googlemaps/js-samples init event-simple DESTINATION_FOLDER

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