[TYPO3] finding length of menu text string in HMENU

[Syed S Rahman]

Tapio Markula wrote:
> Syed S Rahman kirjoitti:
>> 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.
> #nav li { width:...}
> #nav li li { width:auto }
> you can generate
>  <ul>
>              <li class="firstLevel"><a href="#">Remoras</a></li>
> 
> with TypoScript

Thank you Tapio, I am taking a fresh look at the problem.