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).
September 7th, 2007 at 2:47 am
wow this is great and amazing design.
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September 6th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Very nice. I will use this on my website. Very nice. I am new to web development and I appreciate such good examples to learn with.
Jimmy
September 4th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
GOOD顶
August 31st, 2007 at 12:39 am
Yeah Awsome but if the user hasn’t got Javascript enabled it degrades terribly!
Email me if you have a fix for that! And I’ll be impressed!
August 30th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
hi how i can block the menu in the botton of the page when the page have scrolling bar…… thanks
August 27th, 2007 at 1:59 am
This is one of the best examples of CSS and JavaScript. Absolutely perfect! By the way, this website is very nice and colorful too.
August 26th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
kury,
If you put a the start of your javascript call:
jQuery.noConflict();
Then replace all the dollar signs with jQuery, you should be good!
August 26th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
kury,
If you put a the start of your javascript call:
Then replace all the dollar signs with jQuery, you should be good!
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:29 pm
easy to overlook … http://interface.eyecon.ro/ for interface and jQuery uncompressed
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:33 pm
It’s pretty but couldn’t you have not used the $ function so that it was compatible with things like scriptaculous and lightbox aka anything that used the most popular javascript helper out there, prototype? or at least not have encrypted it so that I could have fixed it?
Currently the only fix i could find for this is to replace the $ function with something like $prot in prototype and all your other prototype using tools (scriptaculous, lightbox).
(note: Using replace all in your editor will replace some regular expressions that use the $ so be careful.)
Great tool btw.