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 15th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Wow! is amazing efect !!! and the icons are very nice, thanks por the sources.
May 15th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
change it yourself. U just need Dreamweaver or some other site editor and edit CSS.
May 15th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Can you change the magnification level? Its a bit intense for what I’m trying to do.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Great job. Very nice visual.
jQuery rocks!
May 15th, 2007 at 1:23 am
Cool.. Amazing CSS thank.
May 14th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
Hey, nice site!
Just noticed something, very minor, but in your title tag of the Valid XHTML in the footer, you have “complaint” and it should be “compliant” ;)
-Andrew
May 14th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Wow that thing is awesome!
May 14th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Good work! Thank you ..
May 14th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Very good work - thank you. I took the liberty to hint to your article on my German blog: blog.d-sign.at
May 14th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Me encanta este menu, esta buenisimo.
Alejandra de Argentina