SharePoint 2010: Change the “Add New Item” (and other) messages for a all SharePoint List Types

In SharePoint, to add a new item/document we always have one standard message like “Add a new item”.

Users who are familiar with SharePoint they are used to understand but sometimes users do not understand they have question why I it always has said “ Add a new item”. So to avoid confusion let us add user friendly message.

How to do that? Let us use power of javascript.

Steps:

1. Add a content editor webpart in the page and add this javascript. Add Content Editor Webpart at the end of the page after list.

2. “<script> document.getElementById("idHomePageNewItem").innerHTML="Click here to insert a new country"</script>”

This is just the text message for SharePoint Custom List how to make change for each type of list.

Below is list for id for every SharePoint list type.

ID’s used by web parts

SharePoint List Type	Default message	ID for “.getElementById” in the code below
Announcements	Add new announcement	“idHomePageNewAnnouncement” (changed in 2010)
Links	Add new link	"idHomePageNewLink"
Calendar	Add new event	"idHomePageNewEvent"
Picture Library	Add new picture	“idHomePageNewItem”  *  (changed in 2010)
KPI List	Add new item	"idHomePageNewItem"  *  (changed in 2010)
Tasks	Add new item	"idHomePageNewItem"  *  (changed in 2010)
Project Tasks	Add new item	"idHomePageNewItem"  *  (changed in 2010)
Document Library	Add new document	"idHomePageNewDocument"
Wiki	Add new Wiki page	"idHomePageNewWikiPage"
Discussion	Add new discussion	"idHomePageNewDiscussion"
Custom List	Add new item	“idHomePageNewItem”

Hope this helps!!!

Disha Shah