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To quickly hide the Site Settings link in portal, add this to your custom style sheet:

#SettingsOrReturnURL {display: none}

All this does is change the display of the link itself to none.  So you aren't actually removing it from the code.

posted on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:20 AM
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  • # re: SharePoint Usability Tip: Hide the Site Settings Link in Portal
    P.E.LAM
    Posted @ 9/19/2005 11:49 PM
    Where is the CSS's location?
  •  re: SharePoint Usability Tip: Hide the Site Settings Link in Portal
    Coolpran
    Posted @ 1/26/2006 7:28 AM
    does this work in WSS?
    I changed it in the ows.css but the "Site Settings" is still showing up
  • # re: SharePoint Usability Tip: Hide the Site Settings Link in Portal
    Heather
    Posted @ 1/30/2006 10:30 AM
    Coopran- no, this does not work in WSS. You can remove Site Settings for WSS in the ONET.xml file.
  • # re: SharePoint Usability Tip: Hide the Site Settings Link in Portal
    Heather
    Posted @ 2/1/2006 4:49 PM
    Yes... and I have done that in the past and have had the Site Settings link reappear after a few weeks. When I looked into it, the ID had changed (went from -2 to like -3). Plus what ID will hide the Site Settings is different from environment to environment, so I don't like CSS as a reliable way to hide the Site Settings link.
  • # re: SharePoint Usability Tip: Hide the Site Settings Link in Portal
    Ben Scheirman
    Posted @ 2/28/2006 12:20 PM
    Shouldn't this be invisible ONLY for non-Administrators?

    How can I show this just for administrators?
  • # re: SharePoint Usability Tip: Hide the Site Settings Link in Portal
    Heather
    Posted @ 3/1/2006 9:19 AM
    Ben, if that is what you would like to do, I suggest you check out this web part by Renaud: http://blog.spsclerics.com/archive/2005/09/12/11841.aspx
  • # Masking the 'site settings link'
    Breaking Point Blog
    Posted @ 8/23/2005 5:53 AM
  • # re: SharePoint Usability Tip: Hide the Site Settings Link in Portal
    E. Shupps
    Posted @ 8/23/2005 5:36 AM
    Great tip!
  • # re: SharePoint Usability Tip: Hide the Site Settings Link in Portal
    Mark Kruger
    Posted @ 8/24/2005 6:48 AM
    Nice Tip :)
  • # Heather Solomon: Hide the Site Settings Link in Portal
    The Boiler Room - SharePoint [MV
    Posted @ 8/24/2005 7:52 AM
  • # re: SharePoint Usability Tip: Hide the Site Settings Link in Portal
    Heather
    Posted @ 9/26/2005 7:33 AM
    You can add it to a custom style sheet, which I would recommend having in the same styles folder as the other default CSS files (Local Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\STYLES).
  • # SharePoint Design Tip: Secret to my CSS Trickery
    Heather Solomon - MVP, WSS - Blo
    Posted @ 10/11/2005 9:18 PM
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  •  re: SharePoint Usability Tip: Hide the Site Settings Link in Portal
    Willem Scheepers
    Posted @ 5/23/2007 6:47 AM
    Hi any manuslas or dummies out there Iam just starting on sharepoint and need som advice i setting it up
  •  re: SharePoint Usability Tip: Hide the Site Settings Link in Portal
    Anand Chandawarkar
    Posted @ 6/1/2008 11:03 PM
    Hi Heather,

    The link that you have provided to mask Site Settings link depending upon whether the user is an Administrator or Non-administrator by Renaud(http://blog.spsclerics.com/archive/2005/09/12/11841.aspx), isn't working. Could you please give an alternative URL if you have. That would indeed be very helpful.

    Cheers,
    Anand
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