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).
November 13th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Looks great. You think there is a way I can make the menu vertical instead of horizontal?
November 13th, 2007 at 4:30 am
Awesome! Very impressive and influential to see someone take so much time of their own to give this to all web designers. Thanks!
November 13th, 2007 at 4:24 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?
November 13th, 2007 at 4:06 am
非常好。
November 13th, 2007 at 1:58 am
Thanks!
Btw, you have the best looking blog!
November 12th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
@Lars: I don’t know who put this example up first, but in my mind nDesign did it best. At least nDesign gave us the code for how to use it.
November 11th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Hi I implemented your feature on my site here http://seedang.com ! I really enjoy it. It was easy to co-exist JQuery with Prototype also. Look forward to more great work from you.
November 11th, 2007 at 4:12 am
very nice info thank you
November 10th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
This is a great dock design … I’ve applied it very well.
I like your effects in design.
Thank’s
November 10th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Wonderfull,I certainly will try this menu
Thanks