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 9:36 am
Very nice. Good Job. :P
May 9th, 2007 at 7:57 am
Amazing menu! good job!
May 9th, 2007 at 7:49 am
I published this one some days ago:
http://icon.cat/software/iconDock
Good job. Your one looks faster and more stable! (maybe because of the TOO BIG sensible area before entering the menu icons)
May 9th, 2007 at 7:26 am
Ok, call me Mr. Silly if you like…
I put parts 1 and 2 of this code into my header.css, with part 3 in the body and it doesn’t work!
If someone would please give me a couple of pointers as to how to do this I would have their baby… ;-)
Robin.
May 9th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Amazing stuff, thanks alot!
May 9th, 2007 at 7:08 am
this is among the coolest things CSS related I have seen lately! really neat. you brighten up my rainy day :)
bookmarked!
May 9th, 2007 at 7:07 am
Great job! I love this css/js dock menu
May 9th, 2007 at 6:50 am
That’s absolutely amazing. Great job!
May 9th, 2007 at 5:46 am
Was woundering why i was getting a refferer from here. to the chap below. learn what a rip is before you go spreading things like that. am sure the owner of this site can tell a rip from a site thats been inspired from the basics of this design.
May 9th, 2007 at 4:55 am
Nice job, looks sweet!