Sharepoint 2010 (left and right Zones) - Remove

Question

All I am trying to do is to remove the right zone of this site. How do I accomplish this? Is there any site in SharePoint that doesn't have zones?

Answer 1

Web Part Zones are part of the Page Layout that your page instance is using. To remove a Web Part Zone you can:

• Edit the page in SharePoint Designer. Before placing the page into edit mode, SharePoint Designer will ask if you want to detach from the Page Layout. Once you do, you can now format the page however you would like.
• Create a custom Page Layout based on the out of the box Page Layout with the right zone removed. After your custom Page Layout is deployed or uploaded, you can associate your page with that layout.
• Hide the zone with custom CSS. The easiest way to do this is to add a Content Editor Web Part onto your page with the CSS to hide the zone.

Answer 2

On the content Editor just insert the following and it works:

<script>

function HideWebPartZone()
{
  var x = document.getElementsByTagName("TD")
  var i=0;
  for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
  {
    if (x[i].width=="70%")
    {
      // left column
      x[i].style.width="100%"; 

      // center (otherwise empty) column
      var x2=x[i].nextSibling;
      x2.style.width="0";
      x2.style.display="none";
      x2.innerHTML=""; 

      // right column
      x2=x[i].nextSibling.nextSibling;
      x2.style.width="0";
      x2.style.display="none";
      x2.innerHTML=""; 

      // right margin column
      x2=x[i].nextSibling.nextSibling.nextSibling;
      x2.style.width="0";
      x2.style.display="none";
      x2.innerHTML="";
      //all done
      return;
    }
  }
}


_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("HideWebPartZone")

</script>

Answer 3

If you have edit access on the page, you should be able to set the Text Layout to one column to remove that right column. This option is in the Editing Tools->Format Text->Text Layout section of the ribbon when in page editing mode.

Answer 4

once you are in sharepoint designer..please also try right clicking on the aspx file and select "Edit in Advanced Mode" - This will let you delete zones, columns and when you go to save the file you will get prompted to create a custom layout..say Yes...all done in one shot.