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()
{
$(’#dock2′).Fisheye(
{
maxWidth: 60,
items: ‘a’,
itemsText: ’span’,
container: ‘.dock-container2′,
itemWidth: 40,
proximity: 80,
alignment : ‘left’,
valign: ‘bottom’,
halign : ‘center’
}
)
}
);
</script>
4. Add or remove item
To add menu item to the top dock (note: span tag is after the img tag):
<a class="dock-item" href="#"><img src="images/home.png" alt="home" /><span>Home</span></a>
To add menu item to the bottom dock (note: span tag is before the img tag):
<a class="dock-item2" href="#"><span>Home</span><img src="images/home.png" alt="home" /></a>
Browser Compatibility
I have tested on IE 6, IE 7, Opera 9, Firefox 2, and Safari 2 (although there are some minor rendering issues with Safari).
May 9th, 2007 at 4:21 am
Fantastic! I suggest you to publish a live example of it.
May 9th, 2007 at 2:29 am
It works on the Wii. Well done.
May 9th, 2007 at 1:44 am
#41
Suuuuure. You just keep telling yourself that, Microsoft fanboy.
May 9th, 2007 at 12:29 am
Seems like the Safari issues are pretty significant. Have you made reductions for these issues? Are they bugs?
May 8th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
I tried to start to implement this and am running into a snag, first thing.
How can I add this to index.html, but keep all your js,images,css in it’s own ‘/css-dock-menu/’ directory below my /public_html/ one?
Simply copying your working .html examples out to /public_html/index.html and of course changing the paths causes some JS error about line 37 object expected (this is on the “$(document).ready(” line.
May 8th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
It’s amazing!
Your code is perfect resource for me to study.
Thank you very much!
May 8th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Excelente Menu, Gracias!!!
May 8th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Grea idea! Thanks for sharing
May 8th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Why do you call it “CSS Dock Menu” if it depends heavily in javascript?
May 8th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
great! But sad to know jquery doesn’t work with MOO. (or am i right?)