CSS Dock Menu
May 8th, 2007 Filed in: Design, Mac Jump to comments
If you are a big Mac fan, you will love this CSS dock menu that I designed. It is using Jquery Javascript library and Fisheye component from Interface and some of my icons. It comes with two dock styles - top and bottom. This CSS dock menu is perfert to add on to my iTheme. Here I will show you how to implement it to your web page.
Update: I no longer support the questons regard this script. If you like the HiGloss icons used in the demos, you can get them as stock icons at IconDock.
Download CSS Dock Menu
(View Demo)
Zip package included JS, CSS, and icons
1. Download source files
Download the CSS dock menu zip package.
2. Insert code
In between the HTML <head> tag, add the following code
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/interface.js"></script>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
<style type="text/css">
.dock img { behavior: url(iepngfix.htc) }
</style>
<![endif]–>
The first part is the Javascript, second part is CSS stylesheet, and last part is the PNG hack for IE 6.
3. Configuration
Don’t forget to add the following code to anywhere within the <body> tag:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(
function()
{
$(’#dock2′).Fisheye(
{
maxWidth: 60,
items: ‘a’,
itemsText: ’span’,
container: ‘.dock-container2′,
itemWidth: 40,
proximity: 80,
alignment : ‘left’,
valign: ‘bottom’,
halign : ‘center’
}
)
}
);
</script>
4. Add or remove item
To add menu item to the top dock (note: span tag is after the img tag):
<a class="dock-item" href="#"><img src="images/home.png" alt="home" /><span>Home</span></a>
To add menu item to the bottom dock (note: span tag is before the img tag):
<a class="dock-item2" href="#"><span>Home</span><img src="images/home.png" alt="home" /></a>
Browser Compatibility
I have tested on IE 6, IE 7, Opera 9, Firefox 2, and Safari 2 (although there are some minor rendering issues with Safari).
June 6th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Cool :)
I’m late ! I tried the demo using Google Chrome.
Everything is nice. But, in the example css-dock.html the bottom menu doesn’t work :(
I will try to fix this bug !
June 5th, 2009 at 7:52 am
a good navigation menu,it’s wonderful!
June 4th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
I loved the floiedity of this bar.
I also found a code example in
www.coderun.com/ide/?p=dock_menu
is alows you for a play-in-code enviroment
lot’s of fun :)
June 4th, 2009 at 6:40 am
Mh i just wonder if it is possible to display it not on top or bottom but on the left side. and the menu items from top to down like:
ITEM
ITEM
ITEM
Is that possible?
June 4th, 2009 at 6:24 am
Thanks. I would recommend you to take a look on mac-like dock example at coderun.com/ide/?p=dock_menu
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Very good plugin…
but how to make a vertical dock menu?
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:02 am
it’s greate man i will use it
May 31st, 2009 at 5:43 am
Erm.. I love the bottom-dock, but its really _not_ placed in the middle! And it looks quite bad when you place a background picture at the center of your screen, and you that dock doesnt fit with its position. What should I overwrite in the code, to get it exacly in the middle (at the bottom still)?
May 30th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Please,
how to specify the image size at the loading.
i mean the size of the images when the menu is not actived is small.
how to specify a size in the config section
(the srcipt tag at the end)
please help me!!
May 27th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Hey how can I get this docks “zoom-effect” to go up instead of down as it is now ?