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
(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).
January 26th, 2008 at 1:58 am
hi, i was wondering if you can center this to the center of the page? if so, how?
email me please. vdsleo@gmail.com
January 21st, 2008 at 5:48 am
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January 20th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Criticisms in some of the above comments are unfounded.
1. how could implementing this be easier than downloading a zip file, unpacking into a folder and opening the html page in a browser. I have been looking at several implementations and this is the easiest and best described implementation of a dock menu I have found.
2 Calling it a css menu is also reasonable, since the whole methodology of expanding and moving the images would not be possible without css capability.
3. The js is beautifully small and compact.
Well Done - Really cool
Tonypm
January 18th, 2008 at 3:33 am
I’v used it into my site,really great!
January 17th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Amazing style
January 14th, 2008 at 4:54 am
Amazing! What more can I say
January 13th, 2008 at 10:28 am
where to get more those Orange icon`s? :) great job!
January 12th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Work very rare in Safari
Work in Opera, but horrible
In IE and FF works good
anyway thx !!
January 7th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
I found some flickering with IE 6. The suggestion in the following page fixed the problem.
http://www.mister-pixel.com/#Content__state=is_that_simple
Added the following for IE:
try { document.execCommand(”BackgroundImageCache”, false, true);
} catch(err) {}
January 4th, 2008 at 4:01 am
Great Work!!! Can I use it to my personal website?!!