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
(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 7:45 pm
Although I love this… I have to confess… how the heck do I install it? I can’t tell where to put the files (on the root?) and where do I paste the code on this page?
I would really appreciate some pointers…
Great work Nick!
R.
May 8th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
This has already been done in the Dojo project.
May 8th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Wow. Very smooth!
May 8th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
One Word: Elegant.
I believe over at the mootools forum someone has been working on something similar for the mootools framework though.
Well Done Nick.
-Raz88
May 8th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
hey, this looks really cool. Do you mind posting up the javascript source code (not packed) so we can see how it’s done? If not, i totally understand, but none the less, really really cool :)
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!