Get back to Classic Pages in SharePoint

Sometimes you might want to use Classic Pages in SharePoint online, but there is no “use classic pages” link in the lower left hand corner. What to do? I don’t know why the “Switch to Classic Pages” link is not there, but here’s a way to fix it.

Open Site Contents

Open a browser console (usually Ctrl+Shift+i)

Put this in the console
document.cookie = “splnu=0;domain=” + window.location.hostname + “;”; location.href = _spPageContextInfo.webServerRelativeUrl + “/_layouts/15/viewlsts.aspx”

Switch back to the browser; you should be in classic mode.

To get back to Modern Pages, re-run the same line in the console, but switch splnu=0 to splnu=1

Published by Joseph LeMay

Former IBM Notes Developer, now doing SharePoint

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