topic How can I change the title attribute of the locate widget? in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

How can I change the title attribute of the locate widget?

JackFairfield — Wed, 31 May 2017 17:22:06 GMT

In the 4.x api, I want to change the title attribute of the dom element in the locate widget. The default value is "Default map view" which sounds misleading to the user.

I was thinking of using jquery to target the "esri-locate" and "esri-icon-locate" classes like this:

$(".esri-locate, .esri-icon-locate").prop('title', 'your new title');

This works when I run it in the console, but I can't figure out in which event I should put this to make sure the dom element is available. Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: How can I change the title attribute of the locate widget?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 02:02:08 GMT

Jack,

According to the widgets nls file the title is suppose to be "Find my location".

https://js.arcgis.com/4.3/esri/widgets/Locate/nls/Locate.js

So this seems to be a bug/issue with the 4.x API. You should open a bug for this with tech support.

Re: How can I change the title attribute of the locate widget?

JackFairfield — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 20:44:34 GMT

Thanks Robert Scheitlin, GISP,

I have reached out to ESRI and my understanding is that this will be fixed with the 4.4 release.

I am still looking for an event that fires after everything loads in the map. Something similar to the "Load" event that was in the 3.x version of the api. Any suggestions?