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).
May 12th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
It’s great, but actually it’s far from being as flowless as the Mac dock. And I wouldn’t even use it in any website… you know, the dock is the dock, one and only :D
May 12th, 2007 at 6:17 am
Really great. Under what license is this dock? I can use in my web?
May 12th, 2007 at 5:35 am
Very impressive.
Great job !
May 12th, 2007 at 12:20 am
Very Nice!!
Study
May 11th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
very nice!
May 11th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Well considering that site links to this one, I think you can figure out the answer to that question…
May 11th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
visit this link, tell me who designed this
http://silentbits.com/2007/05/10/css-dock-menu/
May 11th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Looks awesome!
May 11th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Is there any way to rename the style.css file ? I want to put this in my wordpress, and the theme already has a style.css :(
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?