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.
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Great tip!
Nice Tip
Where is the CSS’s location?
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 FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions60TEMPLATELAYOUTS1033STYLES).
does this work in WSS?
I changed it in the ows.css but the "Site Settings" is still showing up
Coopran- no, this does not work in WSS. You can remove Site Settings for WSS in the ONET.xml file.
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.
Shouldn’t this be invisible ONLY for non-Administrators?
How can I show this just for administrators?
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
Hi any manuslas or dummies out there Iam just starting on sharepoint and need som advice i setting it up
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