Attention

TYPO3 v8 has reached its end-of-life March 31st, 2020 and is not maintained by the community anymore. Looking for a stable version? Use the version switch on the top left.

There is no further ELTS support. It is recommended that you upgrade your project and use a supported version of TYPO3.

The Contextual Menus

While learning about the page tree, you already saw that you could get a contextual menu when clicking on a page icon.

Contextual menus exist in many places in the TYPO3 CMS backend. Just try your luck clicking on any icon that you see. Chances are good that a contextual menu will appear, offering useful functions to execute.

For example, there's a contextual menu in the WEB > List view:

or in the FILE > Filelist view: