[TYPO3] finding length of menu text string in HMENU

[Syed S Rahman]

Hi all,

I am using a suckerfish css horizontal dropdown menu in my template. Is 
it possible to add a style="width:xxx;" attribute to my wraps using 
typoscript so that the menu fits well into the template.

To be more clear here's the existing markup:

<ul id="nav">
	<li><a href="#">Percoidei</a>
		<ul>
			<li><a href="#">Remoras</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Tilefishes</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Bluefishes</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Tigerfishes</a></li>
		</ul>
	</li>

	<li><a href="#">Anabantoidei</a>
		<ul>
			<li><a href="#">Climbing perches</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Labyrinthfishes</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Kissing gouramis</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Pike-heads</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Giant gouramis</a></li>
		</ul>
	</li>
	<!-- etc. -->
</ul>

I want to add the style attribute to the all the first level li tags 
(direct descendants of ul).

Any help in this regard will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Syed S. Rahman.
syedsrahman at gmail.com