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).
September 1st, 2008 at 6:07 am
Don’t copy past the code in your html file, but try to copy the source directly from the demo (http://www.ndesign-studio.com/demo/css-dock-menu/css-dock.html -> “View Source”)
It works great!
August 31st, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Addition:
It seems that the part inside the body is not used anymore:
$(document).ready(
function()
{
$(’#dock2′).Fisheye(
{
maxWidth: 60,
items: ‘a’,
itemsText: ’span’,
container: ‘.dock-container2′,
itemWidth: 40,
proximity: 80,
alignment : ‘left’,
valign: ‘bottom’,
halign : ‘center’
}
)
}
);
But I am not sure.
August 31st, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Hey
I love the dock, but when I activate the NextGen Gallery Plugin with the Thick Box the Dock breaks down.
I don’t know why.
Has anyone an idea?
Thx in advance.
August 30th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
It Was Really Terrific !!
Than you Very Much …
August 30th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Cool! Can i make this dock appear as sidebar?
August 30th, 2008 at 11:23 am
It looks great, it works great, and it’s easy to install.. what else do we want?
Very good job!
Thanks
August 26th, 2008 at 6:46 am
hello every body.i try to use this exemple and i feel that it easy to use and funny.thanks :)
August 25th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
how do you reduce the hover point where the menu starts activating? i would like to not have the menu activate when hovered on the top part, where i have other stuff.
you can see it at www.kingbelvedere.com on the bottom.
any help would be awesome…
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:38 am
I’m having a slightly similar issue to Phil (#549), I have moved the placement of the dock higher(much like Phil) and now when I do a hard reload of the page, the animation only takes place when the cursor is hundreds of pixels higher than the actual images - but here’s the kicker, when I resize the browser window, even slightly, then voila ,everything works perfectly. Do another hard reload to dump the cache, and I’m back to having the same problem.
Ideas??
Pete
August 21st, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Hello everyone!
got a little question about it!
How can we make some changes in the *.js files?
Since i’m new to all of this, I have tried to open these files with notepad and dreamweaver but it did not work.
Why do I want to realise some changes?
Just because I want to get only one dock, on the bottom of the page and that I do not want the number “2″ to appears.
If you can help me it would be great.
Best regards
Silend