CSS in Google Earth plugin

Question

Just wondering if it is possible to style a pop-up balloon via an external/linked .css file, rather than inline styles ?

Roman Nurik Roman Nurik · Accepted Answer · 2009-08-12T15:54:11

What I generally do is create a BalloonStyle for my placemark balloons that contains a wrapper div with a CSS class like earth-balloon, which can then be styled directly from within the containing page.

For example, the KML would look like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2">
  <Document>
    <Style id="foo">
      <BalloonStyle>
        <text><![CDATA[
        <div class="earth-balloon">
          $[description]
        </div>
        ]]></text>
      </BalloonStyle>
    </Style>
    <Placemark>
      <styleUrl>#foo</styleUrl>
      <name>Bar</name>
      <description><![CDATA[
        Some <em>HTML</em> here.
      ]]></description>
      <Point>
        <coordinates>-122,37</coordinates>
      </Point>
    </Placemark>
  </Document>
</kml>

the containing page itself could look like:

<html>
<head>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css"/>
  <!-- Earth API stuff goes here -->
</head>
<body>
  <div id="map3d"></div>
</body>
</html>

and your styles.css could then style the balloon for Placemarks with styleUrl = #foo via rules like:

.earth-balloon {
  font-family: Georgia, serif;
}

.earth-balloon em {
  color: red;
}

Hope that helps!

CSS in Google Earth plugin

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