Provides instructions on how to hide/remove Steam's What's New
content on top of Library.
CSS appears to be randomly generated now so this would most likely break with every update.
File to change: chunk~2dcc5aaf7.css
Full file path is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamui\css\chunk~2dcc5aaf7.css
, assuming no changes to default steam install location.
Triple left click the block to select the entire line to copy and search for.
Search for:
_17uEBe5Ri8TMsnfELvs8-N{box-sizing:border-box;padding:16px 16px 0px 24px;position:relative;height:324px;overflow:hidden;background-image:linear-gradient(to top, #171d25 0%, #2d333c 80%)}
and replace with:
_17uEBe5Ri8TMsnfELvs8-N{display: none !important; }
Trying to make this as simple as possible, but it may be difficult to follow for the casual user. But front end developers should be able to understand the instructions roughly.
- Go to Steam application directory and right click
Steam.exe
and underSend to
, selectDesktop to create a shortcut
. The UI may be different in Windows 11, but essentially we just want to create a shortcut on desktop to theSteam.exe
. - Right click on the shortcut and open Properties.
- Add
-dev -offline
to the end ofTarget
field. - Exit steam completely and open steam with the shortcut instead. You'll know if the shortcut is working correctly if you have a new
Console
tab on the top of your steam. - Go to
Library
tab and pressF12
on your keyboard to open the developer console. This should open 2 new windows,DevTools - Steam
, andDevTools - SharedJSContext
. We want to useDevTools - Steam
. - On
DevTools - Steam
window, select the Box with an Arrow next toElements
tab on the top. - Click on the
What's New
section in yourLibrary
tab. - On
DevTools - Steam
, it should now display the styles that's used onWhat's New
. In this example, it will be_17uEBe5Ri8TMsnfELvs8-N
. - Find this class in the
*.css
file shown next to the class name in yoursteamui/css
directory. - Do the steps above to replace the contents inside
{}
todisplay: none !important;
followed by however many spaces for eachcharacter/symbol
in the css class.