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Responsive UI Package for SharePoint on-premises (2013 and 2016)
If you’re like me and get a lot of requests to make SharePoint sites responsive (it is 2016 afterall!), here’s a great read and some excellent resources courtesy of the SP Patterns & Practices team to make your life a little easier: http://dev.office.com/blogs/announcing-responsive-ui-package-for-sharepoint-on-premises-2013-2016 Looking for the SharePoint Online version? That can be found in the …
Read onSharePoint Centered Layout in Wiki Pages
In a recent project, we were working with a customer who was using a fixed width centered design in their corporate intranet (using the Publishing feature’s “/Pages” library and the Site Master Page), but the System Pages of the site were still full width. Since wiki libraries use the System Master Page, they were full …
Read on3 Ways to Improve SharePoint Quick Launch Style
In our last couple of SharePoint branding projects here at itgroove, we’ve added a little bit of sparkle to SharePoint’s left navigation, or “Quick Launch”. Here’s how we added some style with a bit of CSS and jQuery. First, we wanted each site’s OneNote Notebook to pop, as it’s different from a list, library or …
Read onSharePoint Web Part Style
Looking to add a bit of sass to your web parts? With this bit of jQuery and CSS, we’ll take control of the display of SharePoint web parts and their titles and icons. Here’s an example: In the script below, we’ll target the icon <img> that SharePoint allows you to set via the Web Part …
Read onIE-Only CSS Tricks
I recently came across a brilliant page on css-tricks.com which details how to make IE-only hacks for CSS. Now under normal circumstances, it’s best to just write your CSS to the lowest common denominator (ideally W3C standards as much as possible), but when you have to lower yourself to using IE7 (and often even IE8), …
Read onUnderstanding CSS Inheritance Rules
Like it or not, this may someday save your life. Knowing how and why certain rules take precedence over others is the bread and butter of CSS, and also why it can be such a pain to master. This article lays it really well and explains how the points system works. Hopefully you’ll never see …
Read onHiding a Menu Item in a SharePoint Context Menu
The goal here was to remove 2 menu items from the context menu on a document library, without affecting the other menu items. The menu (before changes) is below. Original menu, before any changes The goal was to remove the two menu items “SMS Document Approval” and “Publish a Major Version”. The first was …
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