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Minimal SharePoint Master Page

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I often get asked about how to go about customising a WSS/MOSS master page.

Here is the advice I give:

  1. Don't for the love of the children try to write one from scratch! You will end up pulling out your hair and banging your head against a brick wall. Start with one of the out of the box ones, and remove/change the bits you want.
  2. Start with the Minimal.master page up on MSDN. This is a very basic bare bones master page. It has everything you need in a masterpage, but no look and feel. You can then go and add everything you need.

Get it here:

How to: Create a Minimal Master Page: https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa660698.aspx

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  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2007
    Hey Chris,  The minimal Master page code fails when using it as a default.master page for standard WSS.  We don't use MOSS.  Is this code surposed to work or is there some things that have to be removed?  THe site error states that a file cannot be found.  I suspect the code references extra stuff in there that is only for MOSS.    Any ideas on what stuff should be taken out.

  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2007
    <%@ Master language="C#" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint" %> <%@ Register Tagprefix="SharePoint" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <%@ Register Tagprefix="Utilities" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <%@ Register Tagprefix="WebPartPages" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <%@ Register TagPrefix="wssuc" TagName="Welcome" src="~/_controltemplates/Welcome.ascx" %> <%@ Register TagPrefix="wssuc" TagName="DesignModeConsole" src="~/_controltemplates/DesignModeConsole.ascx" %> <html dir="<%$Resources:wss,multipages_direction_dir_value%>" runat="server" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" __expr-val-dir="ltr"> <head runat="server"> <WebPartPages:SPWebPartManager runat="server" /> <SharePoint:RobotsMetaTag runat="server" /><%-- The head section includes a content placeholder for the page title and links to CSS and JavaScript files that run on the server. --%> <asp:ContentPlaceHolder runat="server" id="head">  <title>   <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server" />  </title> </asp:ContentPlaceHolder> <Sharepoint:CssLink runat="server" /> <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead" runat="server" /> </head> <body> <form runat="server" onsubmit="return _spFormOnSubmitWrapper();"> <wssuc:Welcome id="explitLogout" runat="server" /> <SharePoint:SiteActions runat="server" AccessKey="<%$Resources:wss,tb_SiteActions_AK%>" id="SiteActionsMenuMain" PrefixHtml="&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;" SuffixHtml="&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;" MenuNotVisibleHtml="&amp;nbsp;">              <CustomTemplate>              <SharePoint:featuremenutemplate runat="server"               FeatureScope="Site"               Location="Microsoft.SharePoint.StandardMenu"               GroupId="SiteActions"               UseShortId="true"               >               <SharePoint:menuitemtemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_Create"                Text="<%$Resources:wss,viewlsts_pagetitle_create%>"                Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createdescription%>"                ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/Actionscreate.gif"                MenuGroupId="100"                Sequence="100"                UseShortId="true"                ClientOnClickNavigateUrl="~site/_layouts/create.aspx"                PermissionsString="ManageLists, ManageSubwebs"                PermissionMode="Any" />               <SharePoint:menuitemtemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_EditPage"                Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_editpage%>"                Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_editpagedescription%>"                ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/ActionsEditPage.gif"                MenuGroupId="100"                Sequence="200"                ClientOnClickNavigateUrl="javascript:MSOLayout_ChangeLayoutMode(false);"                />               <SharePoint:menuitemtemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_Settings"                Text="<%$Resources:wss,settings_pagetitle%>"                Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_sitesettingsdescription%>"                ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/ActionsSettings.gif"                MenuGroupId="100"                Sequence="300"                UseShortId="true"                ClientOnClickNavigateUrl="~site/_layouts/settings.aspx"                PermissionsString="EnumeratePermissions,ManageWeb,ManageSubwebs,AddAndCustomizePages,ApplyThemeAndBorder,ManageAlerts,ManageLists,ViewUsageData"                PermissionMode="Any" />              </SharePoint:featuremenutemplate>              </CustomTemplate>             </SharePoint:SiteActions> <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server" />  <asp:Panel visible="false" runat="server">   <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderSearchArea" runat="server"/>   <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderTitleBreadcrumb" runat="server"/>   <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea"  runat="server"/>   <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftNavBar" runat="server"/>   <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="PlaceHolderPageImage" runat="server"/>   <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="PlaceHolderBodyLeftBorder" runat="server"/>   <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="PlaceHolderNavSpacer" runat="server"/>   <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="PlaceHolderTitleLeftBorder" runat="server"/>   <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="PlaceHolderTitleAreaSeparator" runat="server"/>   <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="PlaceHolderMiniConsole" runat="server"/>   <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderCalendarNavigator" runat ="server" />   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    July 26, 2007
    So I was asked by a partner of mine to help them create a minimal.master page for WSS. No problems, I've

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    July 26, 2007
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