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Is there any way that I can create a marker in OpenLayers with an HTML icon?

Example in Mapbox:

 marker.setIcon(
 L.divIcon({
 className: 'map_primary_marker_container',
 html: "<div class='map_primary_marker'>TEXT</div><div class='map_primary_marker_bottom'></div>",
 iconSize: [160, 50],
 iconAnchor: [80, 40]
 })
 );
nmtoken
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asked Aug 24, 2017 at 15:30

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I found myself a solution, it's a tricky one but if anyone has a better idea please answer.

//options object
var options = {
 className: 'map_primary_marker_container',
 html: "<div class='map_primary_marker'>TEXT</div><div class='map_primary_marker_bottom'></div>",
 iconSize: [160, 50],
 iconAnchor: [80, 40]
 };
// create a container for the html code and set the properties
var div = document.createElement('div');
div.className = options.className;
div.style.position = 'absolute';
div.style.width = options.iconSize[0] + 'px';
div.style.height = options.iconSize[1] * 10 + 'px';
div.innerHTML = options.html;
var element = document.body.appendChild(div);
// generate an encoded picture from the element
html2canvas(element,{
 onrendered: function (canvas){
 setTimeout(function () {
 marker.setStyle(new ol.style.Style({
 image: new ol.style.Icon(/** @type {olx.style.IconOptions} */ ({
 anchor: [options.iconAnchor[0], options.iconAnchor[1]],
 anchorXUnits: 'pixels',
 anchorYUnits: 'pixels',
 opacity: 1,
 src: canvas.toDataURL()
 }))
 }));
 }, 50);
 element.parentNode.removeChild(element);
 }
});
answered Aug 24, 2017 at 17:53

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