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 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).
July 16th, 2008 at 5:06 am
Can anyone enlighten me how I can go about using keyboard arrow buttons to navigate left and right through the menu? Thx..=)
July 16th, 2008 at 1:53 am
cool! any1 noe cn use keyboard arrows to control the menu navigation?
July 14th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
how to make dock menu look fixed like dock menu on Mac OS X
July 10th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
awww Thank you very muchhh i like menu shape :D
July 8th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
awesome menu!
looks good just like the layout of the blog page. nice background and cool coloring
respect
rome
July 8th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Great job, you’ve done amazing thing
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:34 pm
I’ve been having one issue with the dock, I love it, but I can’t get it to work right when I add widgets to my page from LastFM or Flickr. All of the icons start at the far left of the page before they ’snap’ to the center, and then it works fine. Is there a fix for that?
June 30th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
it doesn’t work when including prototype.js on the same page :(
a fix or work around anyone?
June 27th, 2008 at 5:22 am
I would say this is a one of unique CSS scripts i have ever come across.I have just downloaded a and tried it. I will explore its details for sure.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Doesn’t work on mac OS X Tiger pre 10.4.11 and Safari 2.0.4