Create advanced markers using HTML and CSS

This example shows creating a new marker, replacing the default icon with custom HTML and CSS.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

const mapElement = document.querySelector("gmp-map") as google.maps.MapElement;

async function initMap() {
  // Request needed libraries.
  const { Map } = (await google.maps.importLibrary(
    "maps"
  )) as google.maps.MapsLibrary;
  const { AdvancedMarkerElement } = (await google.maps.importLibrary(
    "marker"
  )) as google.maps.MarkerLibrary;

  const priceTag = document.createElement("div");
  priceTag.className = "price-tag";
  priceTag.textContent = "$2.5M";

  const marker = new AdvancedMarkerElement({
    position: { lat: 37.42, lng: -122.1 },
  });
  marker.append(priceTag);
  mapElement.append(marker);
}
initMap();
index.ts

JavaScript

const mapElement = document.querySelector("gmp-map");
async function initMap() {
    // Request needed libraries.
    const { Map } = (await google.maps.importLibrary("maps"));
    const { AdvancedMarkerElement } = (await google.maps.importLibrary("marker"));
    const priceTag = document.createElement("div");
    priceTag.className = "price-tag";
    priceTag.textContent = "$2.5M";
    const marker = new AdvancedMarkerElement({
        position: { lat: 37.42, lng: -122.1 },
    });
    marker.append(priceTag);
    mapElement.append(marker);
}
initMap();
index.js

CSS

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

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

/* HTML marker styles */
.price-tag {
  background-color: #4285f4;
  border-radius: 8px;
  color: #ffffff;
  font-size: 14px;
  padding: 10px 15px;
  position: relative;
  transform: translateY(-8px);
}

.price-tag::after {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  left: 50%;
  top: 100%;
  transform: translate(-50%, 0);
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
  border-left: 8px solid transparent;
  border-right: 8px solid transparent;
  border-top: 8px solid #4285f4;
}

style.css

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Advanced Marker Simple HTML</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
    <!-- prettier-ignore -->
    <script>(g=>{var h,a,k,p="The Google Maps JavaScript API",c="google",l="importLibrary",q="__ib__",m=document,b=window;b=b[c]||(b[c]={});var d=b.maps||(b.maps={}),r=new Set,e=new URLSearchParams,u=()=>h||(h=new Promise(async(f,n)=>{await (a=m.createElement("script"));e.set("libraries",[...r]+"");for(k in g)e.set(k.replace(/[A-Z]/g,t=>"_"+t[0].toLowerCase()),g[k]);e.set("callback",c+".maps."+q);a.src=`https://maps.${c}apis.com/maps/api/js?`+e;d[q]=f;a.onerror=()=>h=n(Error(p+" could not load."));a.nonce=m.querySelector("script[nonce]")?.nonce||"";m.head.append(a)}));d[l]?console.warn(p+" only loads once. Ignoring:",g):d[l]=(f,...n)=>r.add(f)&&u().then(()=>d[l](f,...n))})
        ({key: "AIzaSyA6myHzS10YXdcazAFalmXvDkrYCp5cLc8", v: "weekly"});</script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <gmp-map
      center="37.42,-122.1"
      zoom="14"
      map-id="4504f8b37365c3d0"
    ></gmp-map>
  </body>
</html>
index.html

Try Sample

Clone Sample

Git and Node.js are required to run this sample locally. Follow these instructions to install Node.js and NPM. The following commands clone, install dependencies and start the sample application. 

  git clone https://github.com/googlemaps-samples/js-api-samples.git
  cd samples/advanced-markers-html-simple
  npm i
  npm start