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).
September 26th, 2007 at 12:48 am
I love this! I will definitely try to work this into one of my projects!
September 25th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Very nice. I try it
September 24th, 2007 at 5:41 am
Wonderfull :D
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:36 am
Excellent example
http://quazimd.com/google/
September 20th, 2007 at 8:37 am
man htis menu is real cool … i thought it was flash perfect work keep it up !
September 19th, 2007 at 8:59 am
it is not working with mozilla 2.0 if you insert into php
September 19th, 2007 at 8:10 am
..this worked pretty good for me on my test site.. digitalimpact.ca/FACEBOOK .. ~t
September 15th, 2007 at 7:12 am
Nice work. Good luck.
September 10th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
nice however I have to say the use of javascript means you can not really call it a css nav lol
I was thinking of making something like this however completely css without js and it most likely would not work out too well with older browsers.
I would suggest you release it with the source unencypted and give the ability to control the effect it scales the images too much and the mouseover starts way to soon.
September 7th, 2007 at 2:47 am
wow this is great and amazing design.
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