Question

I have my own version of html infoWindow and would like the native one to be blank so I can just display my own infoWindow, any idea how i could do this?

My infoWindow exists as html and i just pull it in as a Node and pass it to the marker currently.

Answer 1

I’m assuming it’s OK if there’s no blank info window behind yours.

Adding a Marker doesn’t cause an infowindow to be created, you have to add one through the click event on the marker. An example is here:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/marker-simple.html

The usual way to add a marker is to add it through the listener:

google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {
  infowindow.open(map,marker);
});

However, it seems like what you want instead is this:

google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {
  mycustominfowindow.open(map,marker);
});