In SharePoint 2010 a small number of pages still uses the application.master. Let's see how we can handle this little "nuisance" and have nice styling in these pages.
Kyle Schaeffer created a great looking HTML5 enabled masterpage for Sharepoint 2010. I was testing it around and since the deployment instructions where all manual uploads to SharePoint lists and whatnot I decided to automate this process. I created a Visual Studio solution with all the files and a feature that will activate the whole thing.
In the standard SharePoint 2010 layout there’s a bug in the layout that keeps the title as big as the window width, even if the content stretches outside of that width. Let's see how to fix it.