# Google Maps API XML Add Marker Description

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/google-maps-api-xml-add-marker-description/304995>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [February 17, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/google-maps-api-xml-add-marker-description/304995 "2010-02-17T20:04:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![spyderfx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@spyderfx](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/spyderfx)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/google-maps-api-xml-add-marker-description/304995/1 "2010-02-17T20:04:11Z")

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I’m trying to help my dad out with his real estate website. He wants to have a google map displaying his properties on there. So far I’ve been able to use the Google Map API to make a map and add markers downloaded from an XML source file. The XML file looks like this:

\<markers\>  
\<marker lat=“38.679917” lng="-121.315895"/\>  
\<marker lat=“38.708823” lng="-121.389302"/\>  
\<marker lat=“38.663036” lng="-121.277524"/\>  
\</markers\>

What I can’t find any info on is how to add a description when the click on the markers using XML. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks in advance