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Trigger camera movement on marker click
The following example shows how to trigger an action when a marker is clicked in3D Maps in Maps JavaScript.
JavaScript
asyncfunctioninitMap(){// Include the interactive marker classconst{Map3DElement,Marker3DInteractiveElement}=awaitgoogle.maps.importLibrary('maps3d');// We will use this to place the camrea for the intial view but also to fly around the starting point.constoriginalCamera={center:{lat:39.1178,lng:-106.4452,altitude:4395.4952},range:1500,tilt:74,heading:0,};constmap=newMap3DElement({...originalCamera,mode:'SATELLITE',gestureHandling:'COOPERATIVE',});// Create the interactive marker and set the attributes.constinteractiveMarker=newMarker3DInteractiveElement({position:{lat:39.1178,lng:-106.4452,altitude:100},altitudeMode:'RELATIVE_TO_MESH',extruded:true,label:'Mount Elbert',});// Specify the action to take on click.interactiveMarker.addEventListener('gmp-click',(event)=>{map.flyCameraAround({camera:originalCamera,durationMillis:50000,repeatCount:1,});});map.append(interactiveMarker);document.body.append(map);}initMap();
CSS
/* * Always set the map height explicitly to define the size of the div element * that contains the map. */html,map{height:100%;}body{height:100%;margin:0;padding:0;}
HTML
<html> <head> <title>Map</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" /> <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script> </head> <body> <div></div> <!-- 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>Try Sample
Clone Sample
Git and Node.js are required to run this sample locally. Follow theseinstructionsto install Node.js and NPM. The following commands clone, install dependencies and start the sample application.
gitclonehttps://github.com/googlemaps-samples/js-api-samples.gitcdsamples/3d-marker-click-eventnpminpmstart
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Last updated 2025-12-11 UTC.