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).
May 8th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
“there are some minor rendering issues with Safari”
I found this statment pretty ironic since you are emulating the Mac OS X dock, but it doesn’t work right on the default Mac browser.
May 8th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Hey nick, which page does this code go on? Sorry to be a pain!
R
May 8th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Nine - Thanks for your reminder. Instruction fixed now.
May 8th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Wow… not really a tutorial, actually its just jQuery with a little CSS and a small controller for the links.
He fails to mention you need the little bit of javascript at the bottom of his example (source) to make it work.
May 8th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
what is the license that the code is under?
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 :)