[Tutorial] Steps to Apply Custom Item Style for Content Query Webpart

Many of times, SharePoint developer need to  poll out some content from any list or library. Therefore it is important that IT consultant should have a briefly idea on how does it work..

Step 1 : Click on “Site Action” > “Edit Page”

Step 2 : Now you are in “edit mode” and click on “Add a Web Part”.

Step 3 : Choose “Content Query Web Part” and click “Add” in order to add a new web part in your page.

Step 4 : This web part will pull out all content from the portal by default, to customize the output user click on “edit” > “Modify Shared Web Part”.

Step 5 : Panel will be prompted out and now you can custom what content to poll out.

Step 6 : To use the customized style, you please click on “Presentation” > “Item Style”. All available style in your ItemStyle.xsl will shown here.

Step 7 : Apply and Publish the page, now you can view a different style for your content.

To manually create a custom ItemStyle please read “Customize Content Query Webpart Item Style in XSLT”.