SharePoint Usability Tip: Hide the Site Settings Link in Portal

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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

# 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).
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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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