[Typo3] TMENU wrapping problem

[Robert A Heller]

thanks adrien.  i was not aware...i have only done one typo3 site and 
haven't run into this (all graphical menus)

Adrien Driver wrote:

> Hi Georg
>
> Thank you very much for the quick fix.  Had everything up and running 
> properly in less than an hour :-))  I had initially worried about how 
> to incorporate the suggested changes into my Typo3 templates but your 
> quick fix helped me.  Now I have dynamic menus which word wrap correctly.
>
> Cheers
>
> Adrien
>
> PS.  For Robert: the extra > in the code is there to actually display 
> the > character.  It is part of the design requirements for the menu 
> set by Monash (can't change)  
> Georg Rehfeld wrote:
>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> Adrien Driver wrote:
>>
>>> I had suspected that.  Thanks for the advise.
>>
>>
>>
>> You are welcome ...
>>
>>> Yep! Have heard of CSS :-)).  Someone helped me with the code last 
>>> year in this very forum when I asked for help.  So while I accept 
>>> blame for using the code, please excuse me for not knowing better.
>>
>>
>>
>> :-) Sorry, I had no intention to blame you really hard.
>>
>> Hopefully no one hits me for posting my favorite link another time:
>>
>>  http://csszengarden.com
>>
>> have a short look there. Spend a minute to click around. Spend another
>> minute to be surprised, why the _content_ always seems to be the very
>> same on every page, just formattet differently (in fact the content
>> IS REQUIRED to be the same XHTML all the time over there, no chance
>> to fiddle with the HTML, scripting, ActiveWhatever, JavaScript).
>>
>> Spend 5 minutes to see more, eventually identify a layout you like ...
>> be aware, there are around 100 TOP layouts and many more to have a look
>> at, so these 5 minutes may turn into 5 hours :-)
>>
>> After choosing the 1-3 layouts you like most, download HTML (once, as
>> mentioned), CSS (and images) and study, what the designers over there
>> did (respect their copyright to the images, XHTML and CSS are free,
>> though).
>>
>> This might cost you 5 days or so (I'm on zen garden for 2 years now
>> and still learn at every visit).
>>
>> Buy a book about CSS, search Google etc.
>>
>> If you are in a hurry, just remove the   formatting, instead
>> generate a class for the table cell, e.g.
>>
>> temp.left_nav.5 {
>>   ### using () instead of = to preserve formatting
>>   NO.allWrap (
>>     <tr>
>>       <td class="left-nav-5">|</td>
>>     </tr>
>>   )
>>   ...
>> }
>>
>> Include a style sheet in your HTML template. In that have a setting:
>>
>> /* This adresses the link inside table cells with class "left-nav-5" */
>> td.left-nav-5 a {
>>     /* change the margin to your needs, experiment with padding */
>>     margin-left: 50px;
>>     padding-left: ???px;
>> }
>>
>>> Thanks.  I'll investigate how I fix up my menus under my Typo3.
>>
>>
>>
>> hth, Georg
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