[TYPO3] Css drop down menu problem

Thu Jun 14 07:19:23 CEST 2007

Hi all,

	This is the final solution for those who need a CSS drop down menu.

	The typoscripts part:

	lib.mainmenu = HMENU
lib.mainmenu {
  entryLevel = 0
  1 = TMENU
  1 {
    wrap = <ul> | </ul>
    noBlur = 1
    expAll = 1
    NO {
      ATagTitle.field = title
      stdWrap.htmlSpecialChars = 1
      ATagBeforeWrap = 1
      wrapItemAndSub = <li> | </li>
    }
    ACT = 1
    ACT < .NO

    ACT {
      wrapItemAndSub = <li> | </li>
    }

    IFSUB < .NO
    IFSUB = 1
    IFSUB {

      linkWrap = | <!--[if IE 7]><!-->
      afterWrap = | <!--<![endif]--><!--[if lte IE
6]><table><tr><td><![endif]-->
      wrapItemAndSub = <li> | <!--[if lte IE
6]></td></tr></table></a><![endif]--></li>
    }

    ACTIFSUB < .IFSUB
    ACTIFSUB = 1
    ACTIFSUB {
      wrapItemAndSub = <li> | <!--[if lte IE
6]></td></tr></table></a><![endif]--></li>
    }
  }

  2 < .1
}

The CSS part:

*{margin:0;padding:0;}
.menu{font-size:12px;position:relative;z-index:100;}
.menu ul{list-style:none;}
.menu li {float:left;position:relative;}
.menu ul ul {visibility:hidden;position:absolute;left:3px;top:23px;}
.menu table {position:absolute; top:0; left:0;}
.menu ul li:hover ul,
.menu ul a:hover ul{visibility:visible;}
.menu a{display:block;border:1px solid #aaa;background:red;padding:2px
10px;margin:3px;color:#fff;text-decoration:none;}
.menu a:hover{background:#f2cdb0;color:#f00;border:1px solid red;}
.menu ul ul{}
.menu ul ul li {clear:both;text-align:left;font-size:12px;}
.menu ul ul li
a{display:block;width:100px;height:13px;margin:0;border:0;border-bottom:1px
solid red;}
.menu ul ul li a:hover{border:0;background:#f2cdb0;border-bottom:1px
solid #fff;}

	the tricky part:

	You _MUST_ put this into the page header, otherwise the menu won't work
in IE7.

config.doctype = <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

	Hope this helps somebody.

Gideon