Updating the UI with the start and end locations
Once the two markers have been added to the map, we want to display their locations in the UI sidebar at the right of the page ready for when we compute the cost of the journey.
We'll want to show the full street address of each location that is clicked and also add a button that triggers the computation of a quote based on the locations that the visitor has chosen on the map.
Prepare for Lift Off
In the last task we used Google's trigger()
method to trigger a custom event each time a new marker was added to the map following a click. In this task we'll add a handler for that custom event.
So far in this project, we've stuck almost entirely to Google's map API and haven't really used jQuery at all other than to add the initial document.load
wrapper for the rest of code. In this part of the project we'll rectify that and fire up jQuery in order to update our UI.
Engage Thrusters
The handler for our custom locationAdd
event should be as follows, which...