SharePoint 2010: Replace the I Like It and the Tags and Notes icons

 

Don’t like the little smiley face icons in the 2010 ribbon?

   

Change it: (hopefully to something better looking)

   

 

Option 1:

If you have access to the web servers, you could edit the /Layouts/images/mossfgimg.png image:

(I rotated it 90 degrees to take up less space here.)

Editing the file on the server is a bad practice for a number of reasons.

Option 2:

Add a CSS style to your master page.

 

Steps:

1. Create two 32 pixel by 32 pixel replacement icons 
     Mine are a bit ugly….
               
    
2. Upload the icons to a SharePoint library (or if you have access to the web servers, to the layouts/images folder)
    
3. Add the new CSS below to your master page somewhere after where SharePoint loads its CSS:
   
   <SharePoint:CssLink runat="server" Version="4"/>
   <SharePoint:Theme runat="server"/>
   <style>
       your custom CSS goes here
   </style>
   

The CSS:

<style>

  #AddQuickTag_ctl00_ctl35 span span img
  {
    display:none;
  }

  #AddQuickTag_ctl00_ctl35 span:first-child 
  {
    background-image:url('/sites/yoursite/yourlibrary/img1.jpg')    
  }

  #TagsAndNotes_ctl00_ctl35 span span img
  {
    display:none;
  }

  #TagsAndNotes_ctl00_ctl35 span:first-child 
  {
    background-image:url('/sites/yoursite/yourlibrary/img2.jpg')    
  }

</style>

 

 

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