[TYPO3] Setting different ids in menu enclosing divs

[Christopher Torgalson]

Hello,

On 12/20/06, Eduardo Trápani <eduardo at esperanto.org.uy> wrote:
> > Set it on the menu item and not the menu - the NO not the tmenu itself
>
> Thanks Tyler, that does it for the menu(I'm getting closer and
> understanding a lot), but not for the enclosing div.
>
> The (simplified) html template has:
>
> <ul>
>    <li>Menu 1</li>
>    <div id="menu_1">
>      <li>Menu 1.1</li>
>      <li>Menu 1.2</li>
>    </div>
>
>    <li>Menu 2</li>
>    <div id="menu_2">
>      <li>Menu 2.1</li>
>    </div>
> </ul>


You know that this HTML is completely wrong, right?


> All I want is to be able to create those div with an unique id (the
> designer wrote menu_1, but it could be anything), one that will be
> passed to onclick with ATagParams.


If a designer sent me anything with HTML like that in it, I'd send it back :-)


> I read about all properties, about calling functions
> (parentObj->id),{$parentObj.id},{page:id} but I never get the parent, or
>    any other id in the div!
>
> temp.menu_1.2 = TMENU
>
> temp.menu_1.2 {
>
>   subst_elementUid = 1
>
>   wrap = <div id="menu_{elementUid}" class="divSubMenu"> | </div>
>   NO.allWrap = <li class="liSubMenu"> | </li>
> }


"subst_elementUid = 1" makes no sense in this context--as Tyler
pointed out, that property belongs to menu ITEMS, not menus.

What does your menu system need to DO? If it's just a more-or-less
standard javascript-driven flyout menu or similar, you can probably
adapt one of the many freebies on the web--for example, somebody has
very helpfully Typoscript-ized the Brainjar menus [1], [2]. The
Brainjar menus' HTML is not all it might be, but it's better than the
invalid markup you're proposing to use.


-- 
Christopher Torgalson


[1] http://www.brainjar.com/dhtml/menubar/
[2] http://typo3.umloud.dk/index.php?id=356