How to remove the "Recycle Bin" from the navigation bar on SharePoint without impacting the Navigation menu

Question

I have tried following this guide: https://www.sharepointdiary.com/2020/04/sharepoint-online-hide-recycle-bin-from-quick-launch.html and this suggestion: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/remove-recycle-bin-from-sharepoint-navigation/fb1aca4d-88ca-408b-a19b-42e2ffbe5125 to remove the "Recycle Bin" from the navigation menu, but both changes the page layout. As soon as I "Activate" the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure, it changes the layout on the navigation bar and removes the ability to have the navigation horizontal instead of vertical.

Answer 1

Hi @Durrell, Rayhaan R,

Navigation bar will be set to vertical if enabling the "SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure" feature in your site and it's not allowed to set the navigation to horizontal. This is by default.

In this case, you need to inject below CSS using SPFx as said in this article: SharePoint Online: Hide Recycle Bin from Quick Launch to hide the Recycle bin from quick launch and keep the Navigation bar horizontal.

a[href$="AdminRecycleBin.aspx"] {
    display:none;
}

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