Add Controls to the Map

  • This example demonstrates how to disable the zoom control on a Google Map.

  • It utilizes the zoomControl: false option within the map initialization.

  • The scale control remains enabled for alternative scaling functionality.

  • Provided code snippets include TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML for implementation.

  • Users can explore the sample via JSFiddle, Google Cloud Shell, or by cloning and running the code locally.

This example creates a map with the camera control disabled.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

async function initMap() {
    //  Request the needed libraries.
    await google.maps.importLibrary('maps');

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

    const innerMap = mapElement.innerMap;

    innerMap.setOptions({
        cameraControl: false,
        scaleControl: true,
    });
}
initMap();
index.ts

JavaScript

async function initMap() {
    //  Request the needed libraries.
    await google.maps.importLibrary('maps');
    const mapElement = document.querySelector('gmp-map');
    const innerMap = mapElement.innerMap;
    innerMap.setOptions({
        cameraControl: false,
        scaleControl: true,
    });
}
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;
}

style.css

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Adding Controls to the Map</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="-33,151" zoom="8"></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/control-simple
  npm i
  npm start