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).
April 24th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
this seems pretty awesome …
documentations a little confusing though …
will give it a whirl … sure looks good …
April 24th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I can’t figure it out!!
i need more detailed instructions!!
April 24th, 2008 at 4:02 am
I really like this its pretty cool
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:38 am
You have missed a - at the top
.dock img { behavior: url(iepngfix.htc) }
Its suppose to be
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:42 am
Thanks this is a cool article I haven’t seen it on a website yet but I would love to :)
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Does it always have to be at the top? I put it under a logo header and couldn’t get the fisheye function to work unless I had the mouse pointer all the way at the top. I can move the menu up top above the header, but didn’t want to have to. Thanks.
April 21st, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Great! Very good!
April 21st, 2008 at 5:07 am
Actually the quality of the zoomed image is not satisfactory. Isn’t there any way to make it less pixelized or something else like anti aliasing in order to improve the quality of the zoomed icon ?
April 20th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
it’s awesome!
April 19th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Great work, thank you for sharing the zip file with all of us!