Infowindow background color

[TTA]

Hi All,

Is this possible to change background color of the info window? The
default info window background color is #FFFFFF (white). And there is
no method to change it. Please help.

-Thanks
TTA

[Mike Williams]

Not really with GInfoWindow.

You could crawl through the DOM looking for references to
http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/iw3.png
and direct then to your own equivalent image, but opening the infowindow
is asynchronous, so the user will probably see an ugly flash of white
before the colour changes.

While crawling the DOM you'd need to look for <img src=""> and <div
style="background-image:..."> and calls to AlphaImageLoader if the
browser is MSIE.

Crawling the DOM is not futureproof. Google do change the image URL from
time to time. The image used to be iw.png, then iw2.png, and it used to
be in www.google.com/mapfiles/ and then in
www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/. Each of those changes would have
caused a simple search fro the image to fail.

Alternatively, you could use a third party window system like
ExtInfoWindows or EWindows.

--
Mike Williams

[Esa]

On Jan 21, 2:00 pm, Mike Williams <nos...@econym.demon.co.uk> wrote:

I agree but ExtInfoWindows and EWindows are v2 extensions.

There is a custom info window script for v3 by Pamela in the Demo
Gallery:
http://gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/infowindow_custom/infowindow-custom.html

[Mike Williams]

Esa wrote

>I agree but ExtInfoWindows and EWindows are v2 extensions.

You're right. I'm not supposed to be in this group. I don't know how
that happened.

--
Mike Williams

[Gary Little]

You can easily change the background color if you use the new InfoBox
class (for V3) at google-maps-utility-library-v3

See http://code.google.com/p/google-maps-utility-library-v3/wiki/Libraries

See the reference here: http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/infobox/docs/reference.html

Gary

[TTA]

Thank you Gary. Your information is very helpful.

-Thanks
TTA