# Google maps embedding broken in 1.8.0.beta8

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-maps-embedding-broken-in-1-8-0-beta8/60076
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [March 29, 2017, 3:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-maps-embedding-broken-in-1-8-0-beta8/60076 "2017-03-29T03:32:51Z")
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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-maps-embedding-broken-in-1-8-0-beta8/60076/5 "2017-03-30T17:36:53Z")

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This background might be useful:

> [@Google Maps Onebox Issue](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-maps-onebox-issue/55830/3):
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> The “click screen” div that’s supposed to block scrolls, but be deleted as soon as you click it, is sticking around longer than it’s wanted. \<div class="maps-onebox"\> \<!-- this thing --\> \<div style="background:transparent;position:relative;width:690px;height:400px;top:400px;margin-top:-400px;"\>\</div\> \<iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=za0Bx0koO4sk.kHCbG4TApEP4" width="690" height="400" frameborder="0" style="border:0"\>&amp;lt;img src="https://www.google.com/maps/d/thumbnail?mi…

> [@The "click shade" on gmaps embeds is 100](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-click-shade-on-gmaps-embeds-is-100/41610):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Embedding custom created Google Maps](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-custom-created-google-maps/41088/2): One more tiny, awesome detail of Discourse: Because gmaps embeds capture mousewheel events, there’s an invisible shade over the embed that you need to click to remove. Click or tap once, and it’s usable. Don’t click or tap, and you can scroll on by. Here, test it out:

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