Empty Div Preventing Interaction with amCharts5 MapChart on Vue3 - frontend

Question

I decided to dip my toes in Vue and have had an idea for a website for a while which I'd like to use amCharts5 for.
I had some issues initially as all the info I could find was related to Vue2, but I think I've somewhat wrapped my head around Vue3 and its composition API.
The MapChart is created, however there is always a div slapped on top of it which prevent any interaction. If I delete this element via DevTools, the MapChart becomes interactive.
I've tried debugging this and commenting sections of the code out, regardless this div is always created. And I simply can't figure out if it's injected by Vue or if amCharts 5 is the culprit.
The highlighted element is the one I must delete for it to become interactive.
Here's how the component is setup;
<template>
<div class="testClass" ref="chartdiv">
</div>
</template>
<script setup lang="ts">
import * as am5 from "#amcharts/amcharts5";
import * as am5map from "#amcharts/amcharts5/map";
import am5geodata_worldLow from "#amcharts/amcharts5-geodata/worldLow";
import am5themes_Animated from '#amcharts/amcharts5/themes/Animated';
import { ref, onMounted, onUnmounted } from "vue";
const chartdiv = ref<HTMLElement | null>()
var root!: am5.Root;
onMounted(() => {
if (chartdiv.value) {
// Create the Root
var root = am5.Root.new(chartdiv.value);
// Setup the MapChart
var chart = root.container.children.push(
am5map.MapChart.new(root, {
panX: "rotateX",
panY: "rotateY",
projection: am5map.geoOrthographic(),
centerMapOnZoomOut: false
})
);
// Setup Animations
root.setThemes([
am5themes_Animated.new(root)
]);
// Create MapPolygons
var polygonSeries = chart.series.push(
am5map.MapPolygonSeries.new(root, {
geoJSON: am5geodata_worldLow
})
);
// Setup MapPolygon Styling
polygonSeries.mapPolygons.template.setAll({
tooltipText: "{name}",
fill: am5.color("#909090")
});
// Setup MapPolygon Hover Styling
polygonSeries.mapPolygons.template.states.create("hover", {
fill: am5.color("#FF0000"),
stroke: am5.color("#00FF00"),
strokeWidth: 2
});
polygonSeries.mapPolygons.template.events.on("click", function(event) {
//console.log("Clicked: {0}", event.target);
});
// Setup Background
var backgroundSeries = chart.series.unshift(
am5map.MapPolygonSeries.new(root, {})
);
backgroundSeries.mapPolygons.template.setAll({
fill: am5.color(0x2c84d0),
stroke: am5.color(0x2c84d0)
});
backgroundSeries.data.push({
geometry: am5map.getGeoRectangle(90, 180, -90, -180)
});
}
});
onUnmounted(() => {
if (root) {
root.dispose();
}
});
</script>
<style scoped>
.testClass {
width: 50vw;
height: 50vh;
}
</style>

Answer 1

When you create a Vite-powered Vue project, it automatically creates a bunch of CSS files for you. One of those is base.css.
Inside this file, you'll find these lines which causes all the headache;
*,
*::before,
*::after {
box-sizing: border-box;
margin: 0;
position: relative;
font-weight: normal;
}
Removing those lines will fix the issue.