Hide “My Site” Top Link Bar Item in MySite

Question

In SharePoint 2010, the top-left link is "My Site". How can I hide or customize this link to allow me to put in my own link in the very top-left?

I know I can use Personalization Site Links to add an item to the end, or edit the Top Link Bar in the MySite to add a link as the second link, but I'd like to edit the very first link (without resorting to Master Page changes etc).

My current solution is to add a Content Editor and paste in the following CSS, but I'd welcome other suggestions:

<style type="text/css">
DIV.ms-globalnavicon {
    DISPLAY: none
}
</style>

Thanks.

Answer 1

I hope you will get different way to do achieve this by following url:

How to hide/show My Site link on portal in personal menu?

Answer 2

Rather than using a Content Editor to hard-code the CSS onto each MySite page, you can use a custom CSS styles-sheet and then simply set the AlternateCssUrl on the Web Site with PowerShell:

CSS (custom.css):

/* Hide "My Site" link top-left 
    http://erikswenson.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/hide-sp2010-my-site-link-in-top.html 
*/
DIV.ms-globalnavicon {
    DISPLAY: none
}

PowerShell:

$w.AlternateCssUrl = "/Style%20Library/Custom.css"
$w.Update()

The "My Site" top-left link is now hidden and you can use Site Settings/Top Link Bar to arrange your links how you like (e.g. I make my Portal link the first link and My Site the second link).