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 to display probably in 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).
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:48 pm
broken in safari 5523.15
the menu responds to the mouse being at the top of the page, instead of over the icons.
but the animation is nice, good work :) i might use this
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Awesome menu, this is something that i’ll definitely give a try once.
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:58 am
This does not work in Safari for the PC. When you rollover an icon, nothing happens except showing you the name of the icon.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:44 am
Thanks for the tips!
I really *love* your site design btw, especially the way you’ve used the transparent gradient overlay in the top-left :)
Keep up the good work!
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:13 am
man!..this is crazy!
February 21st, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Fantastic! Can i use it in wordpress blog?
February 21st, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Very good. Bit misleading calling it a CSS dock menu though.
It requires Javascript as well so it’s not a true CSS menu.
February 21st, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Omg! This is huge! Just watched the demo and it totally rocks! I’m just laughing cause it’s so unbelievable. Thank you for sharing this! Got to put this on my website!!!
February 21st, 2008 at 8:13 am
Its Nice!
February 19th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
No separators ?