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
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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).
July 29th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Hi,
how can i resize the length of the menu?
Thanks!
July 25th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
All I can say is.. beautiful!!!
July 24th, 2007 at 10:23 am
yeah…there’s a bug with opera…
July 24th, 2007 at 10:14 am
wow!!!
thank u!!!
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Hi,
I want to change the menu to start from top to down ,Can anyone help me ?
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:28 am
Great menu!
However, I implemented it into my web site and I found one little problem in Opera. On my web site, the dock is placed in a table 150px from the top. This works fine, but in Opera the resizing of the icons only happens when your mouse is at the top of the page.
OK, I can’t really explain, just check http://www.martenjacobs.nl/
July 22nd, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Whoa! That looks really great :D
July 22nd, 2007 at 11:43 am
@pino, try a website called “www.google.com”, it allows you to search the internet, really! for example, enter “mootools fisheye”, and guess what!?!?
;-)
or go straight to for instance http://www.chrisesler.com/mootools/fisheye/index.php
July 22nd, 2007 at 8:09 am
Am I the only person who finds this form of navigation extremely annoying?
Sure, it’s kinda cool for about 10 seconds, but when I’ve used a site that uses this navigation method, it drives me insane.
Anyone else find this?
July 21st, 2007 at 1:58 pm
BRILLIANT!!!!