Highlighting or Bolding the Borders of a kml Polygon - kml

Question

Hey after loading a kml file to google earth I was trying to have when a user clicks a certain polygon from the kml, to have that polygon highlighted.
So far I can record the click event, get the event type (KmlPlacemark) and grab its kml markup.
I tried doing something similar to this example where they add a placemark to the getFeatures of the kmlObject but both target and type don't seem to have 'getFeatures'. After looking around the documentation I think I might either want setOutline from Kml Polystyle class or setWidth() from KmlLineStyle class but am not sure. Also when I try something like target.setOutline(true); it doesn't work.
Can anyone tell me if I'm on the right track, hints to what I'm doing wrong, and if there's a better way to do this?
function recordEvent(event) {
var target = event.getTarget();
var type = target.getType();
if(type == "KmlPolygon") {
alert("KMLPolygon ");
}else if(type == "KmlPlacemark") {
// // get the data you want from the target.
var description = target.getDescription();
var balloon = target.getBalloonHtml();
var outputKml = target.getKml();
if ('getFeatures' in event) {
console.log("test");
event.getFeatures().appendChild(placemark);
}
console.log("hello?")
// target.setOutline(true);
console.log(outputKml);
}
};
google.earth.addEventListener(ge.getGlobe(), 'click', recordEvent);
Thanks!

Answer 1

I find the best way to do what you are asking is to:
Detect click events like you currently do
If clicked, create a new Style, then assign it to the target
var newStyle = ge.createStyle('');
// Assign your Style's attributes such as LabelStyle and IconStyle
// eg to set the scale of your label
newStyle.getLabelStyle().setScale(2.5);
// Set the Style
target.setStyleSelector(newStyle);
Edit to add in this link of a Google example showing it more in depth
https://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/#styling_placemarks_using_style_maps