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Typo3, exclude rootline menu on first level pages

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On the root or first level page you probably want to hide a so called breadcrumb menu, as it would be a single word, identically with the page title, looking like a repetition of the page title. All "deeper" page levels should indeed include the complete path.

There is a HMENU.minItems property which looked pretty like what I needed. But that created a dummy item with three dots for missing level items, not what I wanted. So, the trick is to use a conditional block, where the first one is executed on page level 0 and 1, and the second one for all deeper levels:

[treeLevel = 0,1]
    # No breadcrumb on root or first level pages
    mainPage.10.marks {
        BREADCRUMB = TEXT
        BREADCRUMB.value =
    }
[else]
    mainPage.10.marks {
        BREADCRUMB = HMENU
        BREADCRUMB {
            wrap = <p>|</p>
            special = rootline
            # No item at all for the root page, so we start at level 1
            special.range = 1|-1
            1 = TMENU
            1.NO = 1
            1.NO.allWrap = | &nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;
            1.CUR = 1
            1.CUR.doNotLinkIt = 1
        }
    }
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