Hide/Remove "Workspace" from SharePoint Forms

One of the more popular posts on this blog has been my description on how to remove the "Workspace" option from SharePoint forms. For those that aren't familiar with this particular annoyance, think of it as SharePoint's appendix - not really useful, but can cause problems if it gets infected ... (that sounded better in my head).

Anyway, I've come up with a cleaner (cleverer!) way to accomplish this task! You'll still need to "pop the hood" on all of the forms that you want to remove the "Workspace" option from by using the "...Form.aspx?ToolPaneView=2" trick and add a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) to the bottom of the page, but now you only have a very small bit of JavaScript to add to the CEWP.

And here it is:

<script type="text/javascript">
var trs = document.getElementsByTagName("TR");
for (var r in trs) {
var row = (trs[r].innerText || trs[r].textContent)+"";
if (row.match(/^Workspace/)) { trs[r].style.display = "none"; }
}
</script>

If you want to get experimental with this and try to remove other rows from your forms, you can do so by modifying the IF statement as follows:

...
if (row.match(/^Workspace/) || row.match(/^Row Title 1/) || row.match(/^Row Title 2/))
{ trs[r].style.display = "none"; }
}
</script>

NOTE: It's VERY important to include the carat (^). If you don't you'll kill your page. If this happens to you, simply hit the "Back" button & add the ^.