How To: Hide Left Side Navigation on Home Page

"How can I hide the side nav bar on the main homepage layout ?? I want to be able to use the side NAV with in the team site etc etc, but I don't want it on the front page.. "

There are a couple of ways to do this in SharePoint 2010. If you are using a non-publishing site you can add a Content Editor Web Part to the page and add the following to the HTML Source.



<Style>
body #s4-leftpanel
{
display: none;
}     

.s4-ca
{
margin-left: 0px;
}
</style>

Basically the CSS above hides the left navigation Div, and then sets the content area to not have a left margin.

Once you are done, simply modify the web part and hide it on the page.


If you are using a publishing site for your homepage simply add the same styles specified above to a custom page layout. That way if you have a need for other pages that do not need the left side navigation you can re-use the page layout.