How to Add jQuery Color Fading Menubar to Blogger

7:30 AM Posted by Anonymous

Having a nice menu bar can increase your blogs look and make it look more professional.Let us see how to do this?

1.Login to your Blogger Dashboard--->Layout--->Edit HTML.
2.Backup your template before making any change in your templates.
3.Search for closing head tag in your templates,ie.,search for </head> and add the following piece of code just before it:

<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'/>

<script type='text/javascript'>

//<![CDATA[

/*

* jQuery Color Animations

* Copyright 2007 John Resig

* Released under the MIT and GPL licenses.

*/

(function(jQuery){

// We override the animation for all of these color styles

jQuery.each(['backgroundColor', 'borderBottomColor', 'borderLeftColor', 'borderRightColor', 'borderTopColor', 'color', 'outlineColor'], function(i,attr){

jQuery.fx.step[attr] = function(fx){

if ( fx.state == 0 ) {

fx.start = getColor( fx.elem, attr );

fx.end = getRGB( fx.end );

}

fx.elem.style[attr] = "rgb(" + [

Math.max(Math.min( parseInt((fx.pos * (fx.end[0] - fx.start[0])) + fx.start[0]), 255), 0),

Math.max(Math.min( parseInt((fx.pos * (fx.end[1] - fx.start[1])) + fx.start[1]), 255), 0),

Math.max(Math.min( parseInt((fx.pos * (fx.end[2] - fx.start[2])) + fx.start[2]), 255), 0)

].join(",") + ")";

}

});

// Color Conversion functions from highlightFade

// By Blair Mitchelmore

// http://jquery.offput.ca/highlightFade/

// Parse strings looking for color tuples [255,255,255]

function getRGB(color) {

var result;

// Check if we're already dealing with an array of colors

if ( color && color.constructor == Array && color.length == 3 )

return color;

// Look for rgb(num,num,num)

if (result = /rgb$\s*([0-9]{1,3})\s*,\s*([0-9]{1,3})\s*,\s*([0-9]{1,3})\s*$/.exec(color))

return [parseInt(result[1]), parseInt(result[2]), parseInt(result[3])];

// Look for rgb(num%,num%,num%)

if (result = /rgb$\s*([0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?)\%\s*,\s*([0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?)\%\s*,\s*([0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?)\%\s*$/.exec(color))

return [parseFloat(result[1])*2.55, parseFloat(result[2])*2.55, parseFloat(result[3])*2.55];

// Look for #a0b1c2

if (result = /#([a-fA-F0-9]{2})([a-fA-F0-9]{2})([a-fA-F0-9]{2})/.exec(color))

return [parseInt(result[1],16), parseInt(result[2],16), parseInt(result[3],16)];

// Look for #fff

if (result = /#([a-fA-F0-9])([a-fA-F0-9])([a-fA-F0-9])/.exec(color))

return [parseInt(result[1]+result[1],16), parseInt(result[2]+result[2],16), parseInt(result[3]+result[3],16)];

// Otherwise, we're most likely dealing with a named color

return colors[jQuery.trim(color).toLowerCase()];

}

function getColor(elem, attr) {

var color;

do {

color = jQuery.curCSS(elem, attr);

// Keep going until we find an element that has color, or we hit the body

if ( color != '' && color != 'transparent' || jQuery.nodeName(elem, "body") )

break;

attr = "backgroundColor";

} while ( elem = elem.parentNode );

return getRGB(color);

};

// Some named colors to work with

// From Interface by Stefan Petre

// http://interface.eyecon.ro/

var colors = {

aqua:[0,255,255],

azure:[240,255,255],

beige:[245,245,220],

black:[0,0,0],

blue:[0,0,255],

brown:[165,42,42],

cyan:[0,255,255],

darkblue:[0,0,139],

darkcyan:[0,139,139],

darkgrey:[169,169,169],

darkgreen:[0,100,0],

darkkhaki:[189,183,107],

darkmagenta:[139,0,139],

darkolivegreen:[85,107,47],

darkorange:[255,140,0],

darkorchid:[153,50,204],

darkred:[139,0,0],

darksalmon:[233,150,122],

darkviolet:[148,0,211],

fuchsia:[255,0,255],

gold:[255,215,0],

green:[0,128,0],

indigo:[75,0,130],

khaki:[240,230,140],

lightblue:[173,216,230],

lightcyan:[224,255,255],

lightgreen:[144,238,144],

lightgrey:[211,211,211],

lightpink:[255,182,193],

lightyellow:[255,255,224],

lime:[0,255,0],

magenta:[255,0,255],

maroon:[128,0,0],

navy:[0,0,128],

olive:[128,128,0],

orange:[255,165,0],

pink:[255,192,203],

purple:[128,0,128],

violet:[128,0,128],

red:[255,0,0],

silver:[192,192,192],

white:[255,255,255],

yellow:[255,255,0]

};

})(jQuery);

//]]>

</script>

<script type='text/javascript'>

//<![CDATA[

var hoverColour = "#FFF";

$(function(){

$("a.hoverBtn").show("fast", function() {

$(this).wrap("<div class=\"hoverBtn\">");

$(this).attr("class", "");

});

//display the hover div

$("div.hoverBtn").show("fast", function() {

//append the background div

$(this).append("<div></div>");

//get link's size

var wid = $(this).children("a").width();

var hei = $(this).children("a").height();

//set div's size

$(this).width(wid);

$(this).height(hei);

$(this).children("div").width(wid);

$(this).children("div").height(hei);

//on link hover

$(this).children("a").hover(function(){

//store initial link colour

if ($(this).attr("rel") == "") {

$(this).attr("rel", $(this).css("color"));

}

//fade in the background

$(this).parent().children("div")

.stop()

.css({"display": "none", "opacity": "1"})

.fadeIn("fast");

//fade the colour

$(this) .stop()

.css({"color": $(this).attr("rel")})

.animate({"color": hoverColour}, 350);

},function(){

//fade out the background

$(this).parent().children("div")

.stop()

.fadeOut("slow");

//fade the colour

$(this) .stop()

.animate({"color": $(this).attr("rel")}, 250);

});

});

});

//]]>

</script>

<style type='text/css'>

div.hoverBtn {

position: relative;

float: left;

background: #000000 url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL-EPtlLA-5hFDojKJ7xieARbAmSUFyjN-oJVrBG0JLQluS6Jy18aTsXhNRIvyzo-bMyiTvwfsduZ3r7OTBHa0eB39R3_w-ALGm8XhEEP7e8gQ07GDCua_byCRlryk3VMx3fkBnIl79trd/) repeat-x 0 0 scroll;

}

div.hoverBtn a {

position: relative;

z-index: 2;

display: block;

width: 100px;

height: 30px;

line-height: 30px;

text-align: center;

font-size: 1.1em;

text-decoration: none;

color: #000;

background: transparent none repeat-x 0 0 scroll;

}

div.hoverBtn div {

display: none;

position: absolute;

z-index: 1;

top: 0px;

background: #ffffff url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVXj1fW-BonG0STflNoF11nCDBP64vpZ4oL3oEwCeTp-ETYZjDdQ3YxnCN-UoP5OznnebWJCoINLDZ-4bZk6zk7CCDrLaq4cAOsRzuidWKDhoBOH5fa1GBoEe2q_xCVWSyLLxau3RJwX_8/) repeat-x 0 0 scroll;

</style>

4.Now click save template and go to Layout-->Page Element and click on "Add a gadget" and select HTML/Javascript and add following piece of code in it:

<a class="hoverBtn" href="#">Home</a>

<a class="hoverBtn" href="#">HTML</a>

<a class="hoverBtn" href="#">CSS</a>

<a class="hoverBtn" href="#">About</a>

<a class="hoverBtn" href="#">Contact</a>

5.Change above links with yours and enjoy!!!!

Spl. Thanx to Lasantha bandra for sharing this with us.