Hide View All Site Content and Recycle Bin in Quick Launch

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A common request that is received by SharePoint professionals is to hide the “View All Site Content” and “Recycle Bin” links from left hand  navigation of Sharepoint site. This navigation is called the quick launch.

It is possible to achieve this without editing the master page in SharePoint Designer. Using CSS and a content editor webpart, these links can easily be hidden.  Here is a step by step walk though on how to achieve this.

  • On the site that you want to hide these on click Site Settings > Edit Page
  • Add a Content Editor Web Part anywhere in the page
  • Open the tool pane of Content Editor Web Part by clicking “Modify Shared Web Part” option from top right drop down of web part
  • Click on “Source Editor” button inside tool-pane and in “Text Entry” window paste the following lines.
  • <style>
    .ms-recyclebin {
    display:none;
    }
    </style>
    <style>
    .ms-quicklaunchheader{
    display:none;
    }
    </style>
  • Click Save
  • Expand Layout section inside tool pane
  • Check the Hidden checkbox and click OK.