Posted by
Aaron Varga
on
Thursday, 19 Feb 2009 01:51
If you’ve ever had the need to hide the first tab in your SharePoint site, you know it’s not as easy as it sounds. Luckily with a little CSS finesse, you can. Let’s take a look at a typical SharePoint site:
As you know, you can go to Site Settings > Navigation, and modify the nodes that appear on both the Global Navigation (top link bar), and the Current Navigation (quick launch). However, there’s nothing there that allows you to change the first tab!
Using the super-secret method of looking at the page’s source, you can find the actual HTML which renders the first node, and as you can see, it has an ID of zz1_TopNavigationMenun0:
Simply add the following CSS to your master page or to a CSS file your master page is referencing:
<style type="text/css">
#zz1_TopNavigationMenun0 {
display: none }
</style>
Poof! The first tab is gone!
Posted by
Aaron Varga
on
Tuesday, 27 Jan 2009 05:04
Once in awhile you’ll find a need to add little widgets or utilities to your SharePoint page, such as the weather, and RSS feed, or some other eye candy. While they don’t offer a ton of great functionality, they’re often pleasing to the users’ eyes and may make for a better web experience. Luckily there are a ton of these types of components floating around the web, including ones from Google Gadgets or WidgiPedia.
Since these are usually just a link to a JavaScript file and some HTML, the Content Editor Web Part can be used to display these on your SharePoint page. For example, I added a couple lines of code from here for a clock:
How about weather?
Or even a formatted RSS Reader?
And if you need a break from productivity, add a game or two :)
Google Gadgets is a great place to find hundreds of these, but there are a ton of other places to get these as well, and many of them may actually be useful, and not just pretty eye candy!