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 25th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Wow! it’s fantastic.
Thanks for the script.
June 23rd, 2007 at 5:51 pm
very nice, 10x 4 sharing.
June 23rd, 2007 at 7:27 am
Just to clarify something. A lot of comments here tend to believe that this fisheye menu was made entirely by nDesign. This is not the case. nDesign did just change icons and explained how to implement this on a webpage.
The source of this example is here :
http://interface.eyecon.ro/demos
Then click on the ‘fisheye’ link at the bottom of the page.
June 22nd, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Very cool!
June 22nd, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Thanks.
June 21st, 2007 at 10:07 am
i have problem with IE…(i use version 7)…if i put
.dock img { behavior: url(iepngfix.htc) }
in my php subheader, i have blank page!if i don’t put png fix, when i go in IE and if you go with mouse over icons,they disappear…is there a fix or solution?!?!?
in FF all ok!!!
great fisheye and great icons!!!
June 21st, 2007 at 1:31 am
it is cool~~~
i love it~
thinks
June 21st, 2007 at 12:54 am
Fird - the “404″ error is fixed now.
June 20th, 2007 at 1:03 am
This is nice, however, your demo page returns to “404″. Hope you could fix it :)
June 19th, 2007 at 5:19 am
Awesome job dude..