Adding 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 zoom control disabled.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

function initMap(): void {  const map = new google.maps.Map(  document.getElementById("map") as HTMLElement,  {  zoom: 4,  center: { lat: -33, lng: 151 },  zoomControl: false,  scaleControl: true,  }  ); } declare global {  interface Window {  initMap: () => void;  } } window.initMap = initMap;
index.ts

JavaScript

function initMap() {  const map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), {  zoom: 4,  center: { lat: -33, lng: 151 },  zoomControl: false,  scaleControl: true,  }); } window.initMap = 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; } 
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> </head> <body> <div id="map"></div> <!-- The `defer` attribute causes the script to execute after the full HTML document has been parsed. For non-blocking uses, avoiding race conditions, and consistent behavior across browsers, consider loading using Promises. See https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/load-maps-js-api for more information. --> <script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=AIzaSyB41DRUbKWJHPxaFjMAwdrzWzbVKartNGg&callback=initMap&v=weekly" defer ></script> </body> </html>
index.html

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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 -b sample-control-simple https://github.com/googlemaps/js-samples.git  cd js-samples  npm i  npm start

Other samples can be tried by switching to any branch beginning with sample-SAMPLE_NAME. 

 git checkout sample-SAMPLE_NAME  npm i  npm start