Leaflet changing Marker color

Solution 1:

So this is one of the top hits in Google for styling Leaflet Icon, but it didn't have a solution that worked without third parties, and I was having this problem in React as we needed dynamic colours for our routes and icons.

The solution I came up with was to use Leaflet.DivIcon html attribute, it allows you to pass a string which is evaluated into a DOM element.

So for example I created a marker style follows:

const myCustomColour = '#583470'

const markerHtmlStyles = `
  background-color: ${myCustomColour};
  width: 3rem;
  height: 3rem;
  display: block;
  left: -1.5rem;
  top: -1.5rem;
  position: relative;
  border-radius: 3rem 3rem 0;
  transform: rotate(45deg);
  border: 1px solid #FFFFFF`

const icon = Leaflet.divIcon({
  className: "my-custom-pin",
  iconAnchor: [0, 24],
  labelAnchor: [-6, 0],
  popupAnchor: [0, -36],
  html: `<span style="${markerHtmlStyles}" />`
})

Change background-color in markerHtmlStyles to your custom colour and you're good to go.

Solution 2:

Bind in the icons from this site!

https://github.com/pointhi/leaflet-color-markers

Detailed how-to information included on the website.

Edit: Use the code below to add a marker icon and just replace the link to the one with the color of your choice. (i.e. marker-icon-2x-green.png to some other image)

var greenIcon = new L.Icon({
  iconUrl: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pointhi/leaflet-color-markers/master/img/marker-icon-2x-green.png',
  shadowUrl: 'https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/leaflet/0.7.7/images/marker-shadow.png',
  iconSize: [25, 41],
  iconAnchor: [12, 41],
  popupAnchor: [1, -34],
  shadowSize: [41, 41]
});

L.marker([51.5, -0.09], {icon: greenIcon}).addTo(map);