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).
November 25th, 2007 at 1:10 am
www.stardock.com?
They did it better and cooler. Owned.
November 24th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Space should be possible with CSS no? Anyway, a fantastic menu - love it.
November 23rd, 2007 at 11:11 am
Very nice work! Thanks from Germany!
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:02 am
Really Superb !
November 22nd, 2007 at 10:15 pm
That’s pretty nice.
And nice blog.
November 21st, 2007 at 2:55 pm
It would be great if you could put up a live demo!
November 20th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Great work! I would love to be able to make one customization in my implementation and that is where all the icons are in grayscale, but they colorize as you rollover them and they grow.
Whatdya think? Up for the challenge?
November 20th, 2007 at 1:58 am
Wow thats amazing. Thank you.
November 18th, 2007 at 5:47 am
Where can I see this in action? Because I’ve mouseovered the bottom of your pages and don’t see any dock.
November 18th, 2007 at 3:51 am
Great post. Exactly the kind of menu I have been looking for. Thanks!