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 8th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
very nice! i was looking to use the fisheye effect from Dojo framework but it was massive. this offering from Interface is pretty lightweight at only 30k.. i shall be implementing this into my site aty some point. good tutorial dude.. keep up the good work
May 8th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
Very impressive!
May 8th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
honestly- that’s amazing! once the Safari bugs are worked out I’ll definitely be using this! (note: many of my users are on Firefox 1.5 as well)
May 8th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
That is siiiiickkk! I’ll be sure to use it soonish ;)
May 8th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Very nice! Absolutely amazing effect, thanks for sharing!
May 8th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Looks very very nice. Good luck with the Digg!
May 8th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
works in CAMINO Version 2007022310 (1.1b)
May 8th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Very nice! Lots of good things to say.
Only bad thing is it’s very CPU intensive, so it might not work well if your processor is doing other things at the same time like encoding some media.
I tried reading the javascript to offer suggestions on optimizing it, but found it was not written with a human in mind :)
May 8th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
The top menu of your demo has 2 orange “rss “links, whilst the bottom has 1 “rss” plus the “links” link, not that important, but still worth fixing for the demo in my opinion ;)
May 8th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
somebody else ripped of your site
http://www.northshock.com/blog/