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August 07
SharePoint 2010 Master Page Placeholders

The following placeholders are required for SharePoint 2010 in order for the Master page to function correctly.

 

Place Holder Name
Purpose and Description
PlaceHolderQuickLaunch
The top of the Quick Launch menu
PlaceHolderQuickLaunchBottom
The bottom of the Quick Launch menu
PlaceHolderPageTitle The title of the site
The title of the site
PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead
A placeholder in the head section of the page used to add extra components such as ECMAScript
 (JavaScript, JScript) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
PlaceHolderBodyAreaClass
The class of the body area
PlaceHolderSiteName
Name of the site where the current page resides
PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea
 Title of the page, which appears in the title area on the page
PlaceHolderPageDescription Description of the current page
Description of the current page
PlaceHolderSearchArea
Section of the page for the search controls
PlaceHolderGlobalNavigation
 Breadcrumb control on the page
PlaceHolderTitleBreadcrumb
 Breadcrumb text for the breadcrumb control
PlaceHolderGlobalNavigationSiteMap
 List of subsites and sibling sites in the global navigation on the page
PlaceHolderTopNavBar Container
 used to hold the top navigation bar
PlaceHolderHorizontalNav
Navigation menu that is inside the top navigation bar
PlaceHolderLeftNavBarDataSource
Placement of the data source used to populate the left navigation bar
PlaceHolderCalendarNavigator
Date picker used when a calendar is visible on the page
PlaceHolderLeftNavBarTop
The top section of the left navigation bar
PlaceHolderLeftNavBar
 The Quick Launch bar
PlaceHolderLeftActions
Additional objects above the Quick Launch bar
PlaceHolderMain
 The main content of the page
PlaceHolderForm
Digest The container where the page’s Form Digest control is stored
PlaceHolderUtilityContent
Additional content at the bottom of the page. This is outside of the form tag.
PlaceHolderTitleAreaClass
The class for the title area. This is now in the head tag. 
Any customizations that add a Web Part zone in a content tag to this placeholder will cause an error on the page.

 

 

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