Custom Controls

This example creates a map with a "Center Map" button, which will pan the map to be centered on Chicago.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

let map: google.maps.Map;

const chicago = { lat: 41.85, lng: -87.65 };

/**
 * Creates a control that recenters the map on Chicago.
 */
 function createCenterControl(map) {
  const controlButton = document.createElement('button');

  // Set CSS for the control.
  controlButton.style.backgroundColor = '#fff';
  controlButton.style.border = '2px solid #fff';
  controlButton.style.borderRadius = '3px';
  controlButton.style.boxShadow = '0 2px 6px rgba(0,0,0,.3)';
  controlButton.style.color = 'rgb(25,25,25)';
  controlButton.style.cursor = 'pointer';
  controlButton.style.fontFamily = 'Roboto,Arial,sans-serif';
  controlButton.style.fontSize = '16px';
  controlButton.style.lineHeight = '38px';
  controlButton.style.margin = '8px 0 22px';
  controlButton.style.padding = '0 5px';
  controlButton.style.textAlign = 'center';

  controlButton.textContent = 'Center Map';
  controlButton.title = 'Click to recenter the map';
  controlButton.type = 'button';

  // Setup the click event listeners: simply set the map to Chicago.
  controlButton.addEventListener('click', () => {
    map.setCenter(chicago);
  });

  return controlButton;
}

function initMap() {
  map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map') as HTMLElement, {
    zoom: 12,
    center: chicago,
  });

  // Create the DIV to hold the control.
  const centerControlDiv = document.createElement('div');
  // Create the control.
  const centerControl = createCenterControl(map);
  // Append the control to the DIV.
  centerControlDiv.appendChild(centerControl);

  map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.TOP_CENTER].push(centerControlDiv);
}

declare global {
  interface Window {
    initMap: () => void;
  }
}
window.initMap = initMap;
index.ts

JavaScript

let map;
const chicago = { lat: 41.85, lng: -87.65 };

/**
 * Creates a control that recenters the map on Chicago.
 */
function createCenterControl(map) {
  const controlButton = document.createElement("button");

  // Set CSS for the control.
  controlButton.style.backgroundColor = "#fff";
  controlButton.style.border = "2px solid #fff";
  controlButton.style.borderRadius = "3px";
  controlButton.style.boxShadow = "0 2px 6px rgba(0,0,0,.3)";
  controlButton.style.color = "rgb(25,25,25)";
  controlButton.style.cursor = "pointer";
  controlButton.style.fontFamily = "Roboto,Arial,sans-serif";
  controlButton.style.fontSize = "16px";
  controlButton.style.lineHeight = "38px";
  controlButton.style.margin = "8px 0 22px";
  controlButton.style.padding = "0 5px";
  controlButton.style.textAlign = "center";
  controlButton.textContent = "Center Map";
  controlButton.title = "Click to recenter the map";
  controlButton.type = "button";
  // Setup the click event listeners: simply set the map to Chicago.
  controlButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
    map.setCenter(chicago);
  });
  return controlButton;
}

function initMap() {
  map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
    zoom: 12,
    center: chicago,
  });

  // Create the DIV to hold the control.
  const centerControlDiv = document.createElement("div");
  // Create the control.
  const centerControl = createCenterControl(map);

  // Append the control to the DIV.
  centerControlDiv.appendChild(centerControl);
  map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.TOP_CENTER].push(centerControlDiv);
}

window.initMap = initMap;
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

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Custom Controls</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="map"></div>

    <!-- 
      The `defer` attribute causes the script to execute after the full HTML
      document has been parsed. For non-blocking uses, avoiding race conditions,
      and consistent behavior across browsers, consider loading using Promises. See
      https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/load-maps-js-api
      for more information.
      -->
    <script
      src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=AIzaSyB41DRUbKWJHPxaFjMAwdrzWzbVKartNGg&callback=initMap&v=weekly"
      defer
    ></script>
  </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 -b sample-control-custom https://github.com/googlemaps/js-samples.git
  cd js-samples
  npm i
  npm start

Other samples can be tried by switching to any branch beginning with sample-SAMPLE_NAME. 

  git checkout sample-SAMPLE_NAME
  npm i
  npm start