TYPO3 mark root page as active - typo3

Question

In my TYPO3 6.2.31 (I know...) page I have the following typoscript for the navigation:
NAVIMAIN = HMENU
NAVIMAIN.entryLevel = 0
#NAVIMAIN.excludeUidList =
NAVIMAIN {
1 = TMENU
1 {
expAll = 1
wrap = <ul class="sf-menu">|</ul>
noBlur = 1
NO = 1
NO.ATagTitle.field = title
NO.wrapItemAndSub = <li>|</li>
ACT = 1
ACT.wrapItemAndSub = <li class="active"> |</li>
}
2 = TMENU
2 {
expAll = 1
maxItems = 10
wrap = <div class="sf-mega">|</div>
NO = 1
NO {
ATagTitle.field = title
wrapItemAndSub = <div class="sf-mega-section">|</div>
stdWrap.wrap = |
ATagParams = class="headermega"
stdWrap.htmlSpecialChars = 1
doNotLinkIt = 0
}
}
3 = TMENU
3 {
expAll = 1
maxItems = 20
wrap = <ul>|</ul>
NO = 1
NO {
ATagTitle.field = title
linkWrap = <li>|</li>
}
ACT = 1
ACT {
wrapItemAndSub = <li>|</li>
ATagParams = class="active"
}
}
#4 < .3
}
All sub pages are marked as aktive when they are clicked ... but the root node not ... so I've added this as well:
[globalVar = TSFE:id=1]
NAVIMAIN.alwaysActivePIDlist = 1
[global]
[globalVar = TSFE:id=1]
NAVIMAIN.alwaysActivePIDlist = 60
[global]
But this does hasn't any effect as well.
What can I do to mark the root node as active as well?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

After some Teamviewer investigations we found the source of the problem in the Typoscript structure. The [globalVar] condition was placed inside page.20.marks {} but conditions must be placed outside of any nesting.
Moving the condition outside of the nesting and correcting the path, everything worked fine.
[globalVar = TSFE:id=1]
page.20.marks.NAVIMAIN.alwaysActivePIDlist = 60
[global]
As Bernd said, [page:uid = 1] would be the better condition, too.

Answer 2

If you want both pages to be active you need to do another construct as in your way the second assignement would overwrite the first one.
[globalVar = TSFE:id=1]
NAVIMAIN.alwaysActivePIDlist := addToList(1)
[global]
[globalVar = TSFE:id=1]
NAVIMAIN.alwaysActivePIDlist := addToList(60)
[global]
In general you would join the two statements.
Another change I would consider: use another condition as TSFE will become obsolete in the near future:
[page:uid = 1]
NAVIMAIN.alwaysActivePIDlist = 1,60
[global]