Restoring the Navigate Up button using a master page

In the default SharePoint 2010 interface, there was a button to navigate up the breadcrumb structure, which looked like a Windows Explorer folder (see the following screenshot for reference). In SharePoint 2013, this control still exists, but has been hidden. In this recipe, we will restore it using our customized master page.

Restoring the Navigate Up button using a master page

How to do it...

Follow these steps to restore the Navigate Up breadcrumb control using a master page:

  1. Open SharePoint Designer.
  2. Select Open Site. Enter the complete URL to the SharePoint site and select Open.
  3. From the Navigation pane, select Master Pages.
  4. In the list of files ...

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