Hide Default Tile Column From The SharePoint List Forms

Every SharePoint custom list has an item content type. The title column is available by default from the item content type. Some of them may not need the title column for their list and display form. We can’t delete this column from the list but we have a workaround to hide this column.

Let us see how to hide this column from the list.

SharePoint list

  1. The SharePoint List is a collection of information where we can share the information with our team members.
  2. A SharePoint list is used to store the data.
  3. We can customize the list easily. Also, we can set the permission to each list for different users.
  4. We can show a list on the web part pages as List View Web Parts.
  5. Each SharePoint list allows the below operations.

    1. Add
    2. Edit
    3. Delete

SharePoint Columns

  • SharePoint list is using to categorize, group the columns and track the information in lists and libraries
  • Multiple data types are available such as a single line of text, multi-line of text, person or group, number, dropdown list etc

Steps to Hide the Title Column

Follow the below-listed steps to hide the title column:

Step 1

Open your SharePoint site in the browser.

Step 2

Click on the site content which will redirect you to the "View all site content" page, as shown below.

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Step 3

Then, select your list where you want to hide the title column from site contents page.

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Step 4

Open the “List” option from the top ribbon bar and select “List Settings”, as shown below.

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Step 5

On the list settings page, select the “Advanced Settings” option under General settings.

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Step 6

Then select “Yes” to Allow Management of content types.  Click on the “OK” button shown below to enable the content type.

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Step 7

On the list settings page, you can see the content types after enabling the content type.

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Step 8

Click on the Item from the content types.

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Step 9

On the list content page you can see the columns, then click on the Title field.

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Step 10

On the “Change Content Type Column” page make it “Hidden” in the column settings and click on the “OK” button.

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Step 11

Then remove the field from view also.

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Finally, Title field will be removed from the forms. Here is the list new form:

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Summary

In this article, we have explored how to hide the Default Title columns from the SharePoint list from the UI.