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.
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).
May 11th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Question:
I was thinking of how this would look in a site design, but then I figured: how are people going to know where they are. I’m not a Mac user, but I believe Apple has an “active” sign to show running application. Perhaps one of those could show the active link?
May 11th, 2007 at 10:40 am
U A U!
What a hell.. that’s perfect… very great job.. sincerily… grateful work!
May 11th, 2007 at 10:22 am
yeah…very nice :-D
that looks great!!!
May 11th, 2007 at 1:58 am
wow… this is stunning…
May 10th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Outstanding!! Being a newbie though, I have no idea how to use it with iTheme?
May 10th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Oh,ite greate work.But why don’t you share your source in common style?And others can learn how to…So do why?
May 10th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Thank you Nick.
Your blog and your work are very good.
Really, runs well under Debian Etch(Kurumin Linux7.0) on Konqueror(no famous navigator), firefox, Opera…all under Linux.
Very Very Nice!!!!
May 10th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Wow, I mean…. Wow
May 10th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Impressive! o.O
Great work…!
May 10th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
That looks nice, sure,
but you are a liar.
It is not a CSS menu. It is a JavaScript menu.