Approving a published item in SharePoint makes it available to be viewed by users who have read access but do not have contribute access to the item. In this recipe, we will approve the publishing page we created in the Creating a publishing web part page recipe.
Follow these steps to approve a publishing page:
Navigate to the SharePoint list or library that contains the item to be approved in your preferred web browser.
Select the item by clicking on the checkmark on the item.
Select Approve/Reject from the FILES tab on the ribbon.
Select Approved.
Provide any applicable approval notes.
Click on OK.