SharePoint 2007 Design Tip: Welcome Menu Arrow Display

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While working with the Welcome menu in your SharePoint site (the drop down menu with the options to sign in as a different user, log out, etc) if you strip the menu out of the table that the SharePoint default.master page uses, the arrow that appears to the right of the Welcome menu may drop down to be level with the baseline of the welcome text.

SharePoint default.master code:

You can correct this by adding a font-size attribute to the wrapping container you use to place the menu in your custom master page:

(CSS Code)
.Custom-WelcomeMenu {
font-size: 8pt
}

(Master page code)
<div class="Custom-WelcomeMenu">
   
   <wssuc:Welcome id="IdWelcome" runat="server" EnableViewState="false">
   </wssuc:Welcome>
</div>

Look at a sample screenshot.

posted on Monday, September 17, 2007 4:25 PM

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re: SharePoint 2007 Design Tip: Welcome Menu Arrow Display
james
Posted @ 10/17/2007 6:52 PM
Great Tip.

How do you go about changing the font color of that welcome menu control?

any help is appreciated!
re: SharePoint 2007 Design Tip: Welcome Menu Arrow Display
Matt
Posted @ 11/2/2007 5:52 AM
Thanks,

I'm having the same problem, I can't change the font color of the menu items "Welcome" and "My Links".

I've even tried modifying:

.ms-HoverCellInActive,.ms-SpLinkButtonInActive

In the Core.CSS, I can change the background color but not the font color, it still remains as the default.

Please Help!
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solid
Posted @ 11/6/2007 11:25 AM
That was extremely helpful. Thank you.
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Eric sharepoint professional
Posted @ 11/20/2007 9:21 AM
I would like to change welcome control to display cutom text instead of welcome and custom user name(just different format)
Is it possible ?

many many thanks,
Eric
re: SharePoint 2007 Design Tip: Welcome Menu Arrow Display
shehan
Posted @ 2/13/2008 6:36 AM
I too cant seem to change the font color, any idea why?
re: SharePoint 2007 Design Tip: Welcome Menu Arrow Display
Bruce
Posted @ 3/12/2008 9:52 PM
I would like to have different font colors for different events within our company. Is this possible on sharepoint 2007? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
re: SharePoint 2007 Design Tip: Welcome Menu Arrow Display
Ian
Posted @ 5/4/2008 4:04 AM
Any idea how you turn these 'arrows' off (in SharePoint 2003)

We have a 'help' option on some of our web parts that we'd like to turn off - but not sure how!

Any ideas?
re: SharePoint 2007 Design Tip: Welcome Menu Arrow Display
Eric
Posted @ 8/11/2008 10:55 AM
James, Matt, and Shehan,

I've been able to change the color of the welcome message with the following style.

.ms-SPLink A:link { COLOR: white; }

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