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 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).

artisanat marocain

# 443

March 5th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

This is definitely the best of all ! thanks for sharing.

Ray

# 442

March 2nd, 2008 at 2:56 pm

This is a great effect. Thank you for making the function available.

greg

# 441

March 1st, 2008 at 12:18 am

Hi,

Very nice effect!!
I’ll try to include that menu in my website in PHP. But all icon load one to other one. Do you know why it’s not working.
My work aroud an index which load all pages.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Robert Schultz

# 440

February 29th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Awww. I was hoping with the title being ‘CSS Dock Menu’ that it wouldn’t involve JavaScript, but sadly, it does.

Still though, nice.

Marty (rookie)

# 439

February 29th, 2008 at 10:00 am

I’ll ask the dumb question:
where am I to edit the html? Let’s say I’m using your iTheme. Where would the dock go and how would I edit the html?
Thanks for your creativity and willingness to share.