[OpenLayers-Users] An interesting little artifact

[Eric Lemoine]

On Wednesday, April 28, 2010, Jeff Dege <jeff.dege at korterra.com> wrote:
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> When I display an OpenLayers map, with a MousePosition
> control in an external div, when I destroy the map, the external div is not
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> The div into which the map is displayed is cleared, and I
> see the background color it had before the map was opened, but the external div
> into which the MousePosition was drawing it's coordinates is left with the last
> coordinates displayed.

I guess this is expected, in this case the application is responsible
for the DOM element used for the control. So use
control.div.parentNode.removeChild(control.div) or something to remove
the element from the DOM.

Regards,

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Eric Lemoine

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