Question

I’m building a website that’s primarily function is a map search and displays professional wrestling events happening across the UK. I’m using v3 of the Google Maps JavaScript API to achieve this, but I have a question about why my app’s InfoWindows look different to the InfoWindows on maps.google.co.uk.

Compare the following two screen-shots. Mine:

And the Google Maps website:

Why does the Google Maps website have squared InfoWindows, and why does my app using the latest version of the Google Maps JavaScript API have rounded InfoWindows?

Answer 1

Martin,

I’ve gone to the Google Maps API demos and found this demo:

http://gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/geocoder/v3-geocoder-tool.html#q%3D42.032974%2C-90.703125

You should see the squared InfoWindow.

I looked under the hood and found the code below, could be the bounds overlay of your window. Hope it helps.

var openInfoWindow = function(resultNum, result, marker) {
    return function() {
      if (selected != null) {
        document.getElementById('p' + selected).style.backgroundColor = "white";
        clearBoundsOverlays();
      }

      map.fitBounds(result.geometry.viewport);
      infowindow.setContent(getAddressComponentsHtml(result.address_components));
      infowindow.open(map, marker);

      if (result.geometry.bounds) {
        boundsOverlay = new google.maps.Rectangle({
          'bounds': result.geometry.bounds,
          'strokeColor': '#ff0000',
          'strokeOpacity': 1.0,
          'strokeWeight': 2.0,
          'fillOpacity': 0.0
        });
        boundsOverlay.setMap(map);
        google.maps.event.addListener(boundsOverlay, 'click', onClickCallback);
        document.getElementById('boundsLegend').style.display = 'block';
      } else {
        boundsOverlay = null;
      }

      viewportOverlay = new google.maps.Rectangle({
          'bounds': result.geometry.viewport,
          'strokeColor': '#0000ff',
          'strokeOpacity': 1.0,
          'strokeWeight': 2.0,
          'fillOpacity': 0.0
        });
      viewportOverlay.setMap(map);
      google.maps.event.addListener(viewportOverlay, 'click', onClickCallback);
      document.getElementById('viewportLegend').style.display = 'block';

      document.getElementById('p' + resultNum).style.backgroundColor = "#eeeeff";
      document.getElementById('matches').scrollTop =
        document.getElementById('p' + resultNum).offsetTop -
        document.getElementById('matches').offsetTop;
      selected = resultNum;
    }
  }