A Modern, Customizable Visual Experience for Your Sites
The site header and footer are critical parts of the SharePoint user experience - enabling intuitive navigation, consistent branding, and cohesive site structure. To better align with modern design standards and evolving customer expectations, we’re excited to introduce a refreshed and more customizable visual experience for the SharePoint site header and footer.
This update empowers site owners to elevate their design with greater control over visuals and layout, while offering site viewers a cleaner, more immersive browsing experience.
Feature Highlights
For Site Owners:
- Background Image Support: Set an image as the background of your header or footer and apply customizable overlay colors - now supported across all layout types.
- Font Customization: Choose from a set of predefined font families to style your site title, navigation links, footer name, and footer links - allowing better alignment with your brand’s identity.
- Flexible Footer Alignment: New support for left-aligned footers, giving you layout flexibility to suit different design needs.
For Site Viewers
The command bar is now hidden in view mode, providing a cleaner, more immersive experience for readers.
New site header example (compact layout)The features and capabilities mentioned in this blog post are demonstrated in the following video with Tina Chen (Microsoft) and Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft).
Frequently asked questions
When will this feature be available?
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): Rollout begins late August 2025 and completes by mid of September 2025.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 489225.
How do I configure the Header & Footer background and font?
Explore our guide Change the look of your SharePoint site - Microsoft Support for full configuration details.
Thank you for your continued feedback and stay tuned for more exciting updates coming your way!
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