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SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook

By : JOHN CHAPMAN
Book Image

SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook

By: JOHN CHAPMAN

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Restoring the Navigate Up button using a master page


In the default SharePoint 2010 interface, there was a button to navigate up the breadcrumb structure, which looked like a Windows Explorer folder (see the following screenshot for reference). In SharePoint 2013, this control still exists, but has been hidden. In this recipe, we will restore it using our customized master page.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to restore the Navigate Up breadcrumb control using a master page:

  1. Open SharePoint Designer.

  2. Select Open Site. Enter the complete URL to the SharePoint site and select Open.

  3. From the Navigation pane, select Master Pages.

  4. In the list of files in the Master Pages library, make a copy of seattle.master (for our example, we have renamed it as Seattle_RestoreNavigateUp.master).

  5. Check out the new Seattle_RestoreNavigateUp.master master page.

  6. Open the Seattle_RestoreNavigateUp.master master page.

  7. Locate the <div class="ms-breadcrumb-dropdownBox" element. The following code shows the content...