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 7th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Sorry. I take it back. The problem appears to be with another plugin I was linking to (and not using?)
April 7th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Is there an updated version of the interface.js file that works with the newer versions of jQuery?
When I try to use 1.3.2 all the icons group together in a big pile on the screen.
BTW, absolutely everyone I have shown these menus(using jq 1.2.6) think they are brilliant.
April 7th, 2009 at 10:16 am
That is very great. Thanks for sharing buddy, I’ll be sure to use it in my university project :)
April 1st, 2009 at 4:24 am
Amazing.. can’t belive !! i only thought its only posible in flash… wonderfull i live very much.
March 31st, 2009 at 3:11 pm
omg, this menu is amazing!! thank you
March 29th, 2009 at 5:29 am
Hi, Very nice!!! I like this but how do i make it to go to the left or right side of the screen instead of top or bottom. I mean left side of the page so, it will be vertical instead of horizontal? This will give me more vertical space for the web site.
March 27th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Hi everybody,
Does anyone know how to lock the dock in the bottom of the window ? In my css file, i write position:fixed, for the dock. But there’s a big problem : when you scroll down the page, the dock is correctly “fixed”, but the “hover area” is still in its spot (i.e. higher than the dock, too high) :-(
Any idea, please ?
Thank you…
March 14th, 2009 at 1:51 am
I love it!
Added to my blog. Awesome menu.
March 13th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
pimp… love the action… it’s very smooth. and those are some slick icons too. bravo!
March 11th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Hi, I want to use this with images of different width but same height.. I guess this requires just a few changes.
Please help - contact me on my mail…
thanks