Application screens (a.k.a. “_layouts” screens) usually don’t display the search in the header. There does appear to be a few screens out there that do, and depending on your design for application screens, this may throw a wrench in how your page looks. To stop the search from showing in any application screen, add the following CSS style to your theme or alternate CSS file:
.ms-searchform {
display: none
}
If you are working with SharePoint in Firefox, the top toolbar (Welcome menu, My Site, My Links) may not display correctly. Click here for a screenshot.
Add this to your CSS to correct this problem:
.ms-globallinks {
white-space:nowrap
}
This works in Firefox and won’t wreck IE.
In SharePoint 2007, you may run into display issues with the form fields for Search Center. I am not referring to the Search inputs usually located in the header area, but the actual Search Center site (http://site.com/SearchCenter)
and the search area located near the top of the page under the horizontal
navigation: Continue reading
I banged my head on this one for awhile and finally just had to pick apart the View Source code for a MOSS page….
If you are creating a custom Master Page for MOSS 2007 and use the Search user control (<SharePoint:DelegateControl runat=”server” ControlId=”SmallSearchInputBox”/>) you may have issues getting the search inputs to align to the right. That is how it is in the default look and feel, yet when you use this user control in your custom master page it mysteriously scoots over to the left. Continue reading
Anyone out there working with MOSS 2007 customization knows that a lot of checking in and out of files goes on to work with styles, master pages and page layouts. Every time you want to publish the file to the live site, you have to check in the file, approve the file, then publish it. A quick tip in case you don’t know, you can quickly Publish files in one step from the Site Content and Structure screen of your site. Continue reading
James Jackson shares a cool trick to add an alternating row style to any table using CSS and one image… very neat and useful. Continue reading
Cool stuff including rounded corners, star ratings and RSS feeds:
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.
