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Wrapping Global Navigation in SharePoint 2013 In SharePoint 2013 if number of links in the global navigation increases, the links are not wrapped by default. The links were aligned in single line. Sometimes the links are more in number that people started complaining about search bar is not available even though the search bar is available in the right corner of the page. Users never realized the horizontal bar at the bottom of the page. If we scroll to the right corner of the page we can see the search bar. Talking about user experience this looks very weird.  In order to fix this issue some of the css classes needs to be updated which will help in wrapping the global navigation in SharePoint 2013. Below are the some of the css classes:- .ms-core-pageTitle{     font-size:2em; } .ms-core-listMenu-horizontalBox ul, .ms-core-listMenu-horizontalBox li, .ms-core-listMenu-horizontalBox  .ms-core-listMenu-item, .ms-core-listMenu-horizontalBox > ul > li > table {

Enable Ribbon on item selection in SharePoint 2013

With every version of SharePoint Microsoft changes a lot that its hard to adjust with new version. It takes bit of time to get used to the new changes in new version. Just an example In SharePoint 2007 the Site Actions menu was in the right corner of the screen, in SharePoint 2010 the Site Actions moved to left of the screen, again in SharePoint 2013 the Site Actions(gear icon) is moved to the right corner of the screen. In SharePoint 2010 the ribbon is by default selected when an item is selected, but in SharePoint 2013 the ribbon is not selected by default. So I tried hard to find a setting which can help in enabling the ribbon by default. But no luck. Tried searching a lot but didn't find a direct way to do so. Here in this article I will help you in enabling the ribbon when selecting an item in SharePoint 2013. Why by default the ribbon is not selected in SharePoint 2013 The new UI reflects their “Minimal Download Strategy” in SharePoint 2013 that improves rende