Place Autocomplete Element (no map)

This example adds an Autocomplete widget to a web page, and displays the results for each selected place.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

async function init(): Promise<void> {
    // Request needed libraries.
    // @ts-expect-error - when this gets addressed also remove the global eslint-disables above
    const { PlaceAutocompleteElement } =
        await google.maps.importLibrary('places');
    // Create the input HTML element, and append it.
    const placeAutocomplete = new PlaceAutocompleteElement();
    document.body.appendChild(placeAutocomplete);

    // Inject HTML UI.
    const selectedPlaceTitle = document.createElement('p');
    selectedPlaceTitle.textContent = '';
    document.body.appendChild(selectedPlaceTitle);

    const selectedPlaceInfo = document.createElement('pre');
    selectedPlaceInfo.textContent = '';
    document.body.appendChild(selectedPlaceInfo);

    // Add the gmp-select listener, and display the results.
    placeAutocomplete.addEventListener(
        'gmp-select',
        async ({
            placePrediction,
        }: google.maps.places.PlacePredictionSelectEvent) => {
            const place = placePrediction.toPlace();
            await place.fetchFields({
                fields: ['displayName', 'formattedAddress', 'location'],
            });
            selectedPlaceTitle.textContent = 'Selected Place:';
            selectedPlaceInfo.textContent = JSON.stringify(
                place.toJSON(),
                /* replacer */ null,
                /* space */ 2
            );
        }
    );
}

void init();

JavaScript

async function init() {
    // Request needed libraries.

    const { PlaceAutocompleteElement } =
        await google.maps.importLibrary('places');
    // Create the input HTML element, and append it.
    const placeAutocomplete = new PlaceAutocompleteElement();
    document.body.appendChild(placeAutocomplete);

    // Inject HTML UI.
    const selectedPlaceTitle = document.createElement('p');
    selectedPlaceTitle.textContent = '';
    document.body.appendChild(selectedPlaceTitle);

    const selectedPlaceInfo = document.createElement('pre');
    selectedPlaceInfo.textContent = '';
    document.body.appendChild(selectedPlaceInfo);

    // Add the gmp-select listener, and display the results.
    placeAutocomplete.addEventListener(
        'gmp-select',
        async ({ placePrediction }) => {
            const place = placePrediction.toPlace();
            await place.fetchFields({
                fields: ['displayName', 'formattedAddress', 'location'],
            });
            selectedPlaceTitle.textContent = 'Selected Place:';
            selectedPlaceInfo.textContent = JSON.stringify(
                place.toJSON(),
                /* replacer */ null,
                /* space */ 2
            );
        }
    );
}

void init();

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;
}

p {
    font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;
    font-weight: bold;
}

HTML

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Place Autocomplete element</title>

        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
        <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
        <script>
            // prettier-ignore
            (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"
            });
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif">Search for a place here:</p>
    </body>
</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/place-autocomplete-element
  npm i
  npm start