Adding an onclick event to google.map marker

Question

I'm stuck trying to figure out a little bit of JS :( I have a google map

var myCenter=new google.maps.LatLng(53, -1.33);

function initialize()
{
var mapProp = {
    center:myCenter,
    zoom: 14,
    draggable: false,
    scrollwheel: false,
    mapTypeId:google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
};

var map=new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map-canvas"),mapProp);

var marker=new google.maps.Marker({
    position:myCenter,
    icon:'images/pin.png',
    url: 'http://www.google.com/',
    animation:google.maps.Animation.DROP
});
marker.setMap(map);
}

google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, 'load', initialize);

But I can't seem to hook up the onclick event for the marker url?

I know it has something to do with adding

google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {window.location.href = marker.url;});

But where ever I put it causes the map to not display or the marker to not display.

Answer 1

Make sure the marker is defined outside of initialize(). Otherwise, it will be undefined if you attempt to assign the click listener outside of initialize().

Also, you may have SAME-ORIGIN issues if you attempt to load url www.google.com, but it should work fine with a local url.

Updated code

var myCenter=new google.maps.LatLng(53, -1.33);

var marker=new google.maps.Marker({
    position:myCenter,
    url: '/',
    animation:google.maps.Animation.DROP
});

function initialize()
{
var mapProp = {
    center:myCenter,
    zoom: 14,
    draggable: false,
    scrollwheel: false,
    mapTypeId:google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
};

var map=new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map-canvas"),mapProp);

marker.setMap(map);
}

google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, 'load', initialize);
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {window.location.href = marker.url;});

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