Showing the records ID on the View and Edit forms in sharepoint

– Go to the List

– Add /DispForm.aspx?ToolPaneView=2 to the URL
This will open the page in editable form and the add a content editor webpart. Edit it to add the HTML content.
– Add for example a ContentEditorWebPart and paste in the script below;

You can do the same thing with EditForm aswell.

<script type="text/javascript"

   src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js">

</script>

<script type="text/javascript">

 

$(function() {

  // Get the ID from the query string

  var id = getQueryString()["ID"];

 

  // Find the form's main table

  var table = $('table.ms-formtable');

 

  // Add a row with the ID in

  table.prepend("<tr><td class='ms-formlabel'><h3 class='ms-standardheader'>ID</h3></td>" +

                "<td class='ms-formbody'>" + id + "&nbsp;</td></tr>");

})

 

function getQueryString() {

  var assoc = new Array();

  var queryString = unescape(location.search.substring(1));

  var keyValues = queryString.split('&');

  for (var i in keyValues) {

    var key = keyValues[i].split('=');

    assoc[key[0]] = key[1];

    }

  return assoc;

}

</script>