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 14th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Thanks for the script…
but how I have to modify the css to attach it anywere?
I mean…
If I want to add this dock to a table, how I have to modify it?
Thanks a lot :D
June 13th, 2007 at 4:10 am
wow you are so amazing i wouldnt have thought this would be possible and also thank you for sharing how to do it.
June 12th, 2007 at 6:33 am
Wow! This is awesome. I would love to implement this into my site. :)
June 11th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Very nice menu!!!
Thank you.
June 10th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Cool~
But I have one question about it.
I don’t know how use it after I had been completing.
Please give me a whole method.
Thx~
June 10th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Hello! I love this, absolutely great! —> Anyone with an idea how to make one item “active”? This should look like when you move your mouse over an icon as soon as the page loads. Possible? Again: When the page loads, one icon (for example “home”) should already be “big” (as it would be if you point the mouse over it). Please help :D Thank you!
June 9th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Hello. The css-dock-menu is excellent. However I have a some problems when change setter the css properties “position: absolute” to “position : fixed”. I want maintain the dock-menu “all time” in the “bottom: 0px” position. Thanks for the that excellent plug-in for the jQuery library.
June 9th, 2007 at 6:56 am
Great!
June 9th, 2007 at 6:34 am
hi! i like your dock menu! by the way, can u make a vertical version?? tnx..
June 8th, 2007 at 1:37 am
Thank You!
It’s really Excellent!
I like it!