Place Autocomplete Element

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

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

async function initMap(): Promise<void> {
    // Request needed libraries.
    await google.maps.importLibrary("places") as google.maps.PlacesLibrary;
    // Create the input HTML element, and append it.
    //@ts-ignore
    const placeAutocomplete = new google.maps.places.PlaceAutocompleteElement();
    //@ts-ignore
    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-placeselect listener, and display the results.
    //@ts-ignore
    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);
    });
}

initMap();
index.ts

JavaScript

async function initMap() {
    // Request needed libraries.
    await google.maps.importLibrary("places");
    // Create the input HTML element, and append it.
    //@ts-ignore
    const placeAutocomplete = new google.maps.places.PlaceAutocompleteElement();
    //@ts-ignore
    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-placeselect listener, and display the results.
    //@ts-ignore
    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);
    });
}
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;
}

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

style.css

HTML

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

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif">Search for a place here:</p>

    <!-- 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>
  </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/place-autocomplete-element
  npm i
  npm start