GMaps V3 InfoWindow - disable the close “x” button

Question

From what I see, in v2 of GMaps API there was a property \"buttons\" of the InfoWindow object that one could define in a way that given InfoWindow has no close button:

Answer 1

You can also do it through the css.

.gm-style-iw + div {display: none;}

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edit january 2019
as @antmeehan said in the comment,

Google have changed the HTML, and the close button is now a button element rather than a div

So the css code to hide the "x" button is now:

.gm-style-iw + button {display: none;}