Google Maps Style Zoom Control

Question

I am using the Google Maps V3 Javascript API and would like to style the zoom control. Though the Google Documentation has information about moving the Custom Controls it doesn't seem to have any for styling the custom controls. https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/controls#ControlModification

What I would like to do is be able to style the existing zoom control.

Is there a way to do style the EXISTING control? I would prefer to do this over creating a new custom control.

Answer 1

there's a option for that using google's map API and Custom Control setup, here's a fragment of the code I found:

  var map;
var chicago = new google.maps.LatLng(41.850033, -87.6500523);

/**
 * The ZoomControl adds +/- button for the map
 *
 */

function ZoomControl(controlDiv, map) {

  // Creating divs & styles for custom zoom control
  controlDiv.style.padding = '5px';

  // Set CSS for the control wrapper
  var controlWrapper = document.createElement('div');
  controlWrapper.style.backgroundColor = 'white';
  controlWrapper.style.borderStyle = 'solid';
  controlWrapper.style.borderColor = 'gray';
  controlWrapper.style.borderWidth = '1px';
  controlWrapper.style.cursor = 'pointer';
  controlWrapper.style.textAlign = 'center';
  controlWrapper.style.width = '32px'; 
  controlWrapper.style.height = '64px';
  controlDiv.appendChild(controlWrapper);

  // Set CSS for the zoomIn
  var zoomInButton = document.createElement('div');
  zoomInButton.style.width = '32px'; 
  zoomInButton.style.height = '32px';
  /* Change this to be the .png image you want to use */
  zoomInButton.style.backgroundImage = 'url("http://placehold.it/32/00ff00")';
  controlWrapper.appendChild(zoomInButton);

  // Set CSS for the zoomOut
  var zoomOutButton = document.createElement('div');
  zoomOutButton.style.width = '32px'; 
  zoomOutButton.style.height = '32px';
  /* Change this to be the .png image you want to use */
  zoomOutButton.style.backgroundImage = 'url("http://placehold.it/32/0000ff")';
  controlWrapper.appendChild(zoomOutButton);

  // Setup the click event listener - zoomIn
  google.maps.event.addDomListener(zoomInButton, 'click', function() {
    map.setZoom(map.getZoom() + 1);
  });

  // Setup the click event listener - zoomOut
  google.maps.event.addDomListener(zoomOutButton, 'click', function() {
    map.setZoom(map.getZoom() - 1);
  });  

}

function initialize() {
  var mapDiv = document.getElementById('map-canvas');

  var mapOptions = {
    zoom: 12,
    center: chicago,
    /* Disabling default UI widgets */
    disableDefaultUI: true
  }

  map = new google.maps.Map(mapDiv, mapOptions);

  // Create the DIV to hold the control and call the ZoomControl() constructor
  // passing in this DIV.
  var zoomControlDiv = document.createElement('div');
  var zoomControl = new ZoomControl(zoomControlDiv, map);

  zoomControlDiv.index = 1;
  map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.TOP_LEFT].push(zoomControlDiv);
}

initialize();

you can see a working example here: http://jsfiddle.net/maunovaha/jptLfhc8/