UK TeX FAQ -- question label ps@empty

### `\pagestyle{empty}` on first page in LaTeX

If you use `\``pagestyle{empty}`, but the first page is numbered anyway, you are probably using the `\``maketitle` command too. The behaviour is not a bug but a feature. The standard LaTeX classes are written so that initial pages (pages containing a `\``maketitle`, `\``part`, or `\``chapter`) have a different page style from the rest of the document; to achieve this, the commands internally issue `\``thispagestyle{plain}`. This is usually not acceptable behaviour if the surrounding page style is 'empty'.

Possible workarounds include:

- Put `\``thispagestyle{empty`} immediately after the `\``maketitle` command, with no blank line between them.
- Use the fancyhdr or scrpage2 packages, which allow you to customise the style for initial pages independently of that for body pages.
- If you are using either the memoir class or a KOMA-script class, use the techniques outlined for them in "no page numbers".

`fancyhdr.sty`
  macros/latex/contrib/fancyhdr (zip, browse)
`KOMA script bundle`
  macros/latex/contrib/koma-script (zip, browse)
`memoir.cls`
  macros/latex/contrib/memoir (zip, browse)
`nopageno.sty`
  macros/latex/contrib/carlisle/nopageno.sty
`scrpage2.sty`
  Distributed as part of macros/latex/contrib/koma-script (zip, browse)

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