From the course: SharePoint Advanced: Enhancing Functionality with JavaScript
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Customize UI
From the course: SharePoint Advanced: Enhancing Functionality with JavaScript
Customize UI
- [Instructor] Let's start looking at some of the things that JavaScript is used for in SharePoint. Now before we begin, I have another disclaimer for you. You cannot embed JavaScript on SharePoint modern experience pages, at least not at this time. Microsoft has realized that a lot of the service issues they need to solve for people are the result of them modifying CSS, changing master pages, creating custom themes et cetera. Their response has been to increasingly lock down what people can do in SharePoint, basically removing the problematic features. Unfortunately these are pretty valuable things, so you can imagine the squawking. I personally think that at some point they'll be forced to restore features but for now, if you want finer control of your sites, you'll want to stick to the classic experience wherever possible. That's sad but it's the way it is. Anyways, thing number one you can do with JavaScript. It lets you add or modify UI elements on the screen. I can actually give…
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