Displaying The Left Navigation Menu in SharePoint

The left navigation menu is available out of the box and can also be customized by the navigation settings in the site settings menu. By default, the left navigation does not appear in a web part page. To show the left navigation, customize the page in SharePoint Designer via these simple steps –

Delete or comment out these tags :

<SharePoint:UIVersionedContent ID="WebPartPageHideQLStyles" UIVersion="4" runat="server"><ContentTemplate>
<style type="text/css">
body #s4-leftpanel {
display:none;
}    
.s4-ca {
margin-left:0px;
}
</style>
</ContentTemplate>
</SharePoint:UIVersionedContent>
Delete this tag as well: <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderLeftNavBar" runat="server"></asp:Content>

Leave all the other tags related to the left navigation place holders intact. The tag below controls the spacing above the left navigation and it should not be removed.

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderNavSpacer" runat="server"></asp:Content>

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