Browse - previous and next links¶
This menu contains pages which give your user the possibility to browse to the previous page, to the next page, to a page with the table of contents and so on. The menu is built of items given by a list from the property ".items".
Attention
Mount pages are not supported!
Properties¶
special.value¶
Property
special.value
Data type
integer /stdWrap
Default
current page id
Description
Default is the current page id. Seldom you might want to override this value with another page-uid which will then act as the base point for the menu and the predefined items.
special.items¶
Property
special.items
Data type
list of item names separated by "|"
Description
Each element in the list (separated by "|") is either a reserved item name (see list) with a predefined function, or a user-defined name which you can assign a link to any page. Note that the current page cannot be the root-page of a site.
Reserved item names:
next / prev: Links to the next page / the previous page. Next and previous pages are from the same "pid" as the current page id (or "value") - that is the next item in a menu with the current page. Also referred to as current level.
If ".prevnextToSection" is set then next/prev will link to the first page of the next section / to the last page of the previous section, too.
nextsection / prevsection: Links to the next section / the previous section. A section is defined as the subpages of a page on the same level as the parent (pid) page of the current page. Will not work if the parent page of the current page is the root page of the site.

nextsection_last / prevsection_last: Where nextsection/prevsection links to the first page in a section, these link to the last pages. If there is only one page in the section that will be both first and last. Will not work if the parent page of the current page is the root page of the site.
first / last: First / last page on the current level. If there is only one page on the current level that page will be both first and last.
up: Links to the parent (pid) page of the current page (up 1 level). Will always be available.
index: Links to the parent of the parent page of the current page(up 2 levels). May not be available, if that page is out of the rootline.
Examples:
If id = 20 is the current page then:
21 = prev and first, 19 = next, 18 = last, 17 = up, 1 = index, 10 = nextsection, 11 = nextsection_last
prevsection and prevsection_last are not present because id = 3 has no subpages!
TypoScript (only "browse"-part, needs also TMENU):
xxx = HMENU
xxx.special = browse
xxx.special {
items = index|up|next|prev
items.prevnextToSection = 1
index.target = _blank
index.fields.title = INDEX
index.uid = 8
}
special.items.prevnextToSection¶
Property
special.items.prevnextToSection
Data type
boolean
Description
If set, the "prev" and "next" navigation will jump to the next section when it reaches the end of pages in the current section. That way "prev" and "next" will also link to the first page of the next section / to the last page of the previous section.
special.[itemname].target¶
Property
special.[itemname].target
Data type
string
Description
Optional/alternative target of the item.
special.[itemname].uid¶
Property
special.[itemname].uid
Data type
integer
Description
(uid of page) - optional/alternative page-uid to link to.
special.[itemname].fields.[field name]¶
Property
special.[itemname].fields.[field name]
Data type
string
Description
Override field "field name" in pagerecord.
Example:
prev.fields.title = « back
This gives the link to the previous page the linktext "« back".
special.excludeNoSearchPages¶
Property
special.excludeNoSearchPages
Data type
boolean
Default
0 (false)
Description
If set, pages marked with the "no search" checkbox will be excluded from the menu.
[tsref:(cObject).HMENU.special = browse]
Example¶
Pagination with rel="next" and rel="prev"¶
The following snippet uses a HMENU with
special = browse
to display links like the following:
<link rel="prev" href="http://www.example.org/page1" />
<link rel="next" href="http://www.example.org/page2" />
The menu excludes pages with the flag Include in Search removed and jumps to the next section when the last of subpages is reached.
page {
headerData {
// https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev
10 = HMENU
10 {
special = browse
special {
items = prev|next
items.prevnextToSection = 1
excludeNoSearchPages = 1
}
1 = TMENU
1.NO {
allWrap = <link rel="prev" href="|"> |*| <link rel="next" href="|">
doNotLinkIt = 1
stdWrap {
typolink {
parameter.data = field:uid
returnLast = url
}
}
}
}
}
}