[TYPO3-core] RFC: #14212: Better styling of BE login news

[Jeff Segars]

On 4/26/10 6:48 PM, Georg Ringer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is a SVN patch request.
>
> Type: Bugfix, nobrainer
>
> Branches: trunk
>
> Bugtracker references: http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=14212
>
> Problem:
> It is very easy to show some basic news items below the BE login box by
> using $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['BE']['loginNews']. For better styling
> it would be awesome to have 2 additional classes which are applied to
> the items: first-item and last-item.
>
> Solution:
> Add a marker to the t3skin template + the logic for those classes.
>
> Additional information:
> I would like to have this in 4.4. because I currently writing a small
> extension which makes it possible to add those news items via an
> extension through the Backend.
>
> How to test:
> Add someting like
> -------
> $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['BE']['loginNews'][] = array(
> 'header' =>  'Title #1',
> 'content' =>  'Mesage body. Message body.',
> );
> -------
>
> to typo3conf/extTables.php, delete the cache, logout and see the news item.
>
> Georg

+1 on reading and testing.

Side note: can't wait for the day that :first-child and :last-child work 
work in IE so we don't need this kind of stuff