Collection of free HTML and CSS breadcrumb navigation code examples: simple, responsive, multiline, collapsed, etc

Skewed Progress Tabs

Tilt. Those. Tabs. Or something like that. How it works? Easy! The tabs is skewed by using transform: skewX(-30deg). Then we skew the elements inside in the other direction, like this: transform: skewX(30deg), making them stand up straight again.

Breadcrumbs Designs

Breadcrumbs designs (skewed, border-radius, click effect).

Breadcrumb

Breadcrumbs Сomponent

Breadcrumb Experiment

Refactoring UI - Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs

Accessible SEO and Mobile Optimized Breadcrumb Navigation

Breadcrumbs are intended to show the hierarchical structure of the site (NOT the history of pages traversed during a session on the site).

CSS Cut-Up Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs show the hierarchy of content between the site's root and the user's current location.

Vertical Breadcrumb

Simple CSS vertical breadcrumbs.

Breadcrumb With Dropdown Navigation

Feel free to customize it to your own way. Colors, sizes, shadows, borders, etc. Made with Bootstrap.

Breadcrumbs with 'Smart' Ellipsis (Flex)

Play with the browser size to see how the breadcrumbs behave when there's no room left for them.

Breadcrumbs Navigation

This example shows what happens as a user gets closer to the back button. The breadcrumbs expand and allow the user to navigate to almost anywhere else in the course while only having minimal impact on space.

Creative Bread Crumb Designs

Creative and stylish bread crumb designs.

Breadcrumbs

Pure CSS3 Breadcrumb Navigation

The problem with most CSS3 based breadcrumbs is that they use border based triangles for the arrows which is awful because: 1. Hover effects are not pixel perfect - hovering on the arrows creates issues because they appear to be triangles but occupy a square region. So hovering/clicking at the edge of a link could trigger the event on the next/previous link actually. 2. You cannot use gradients on borders which means you are stuck with flat colored breadcrumb links. 3. You cannot animate the links along with the arrows using CSS3 transitions. The solution is to use rotated squares lying half inside the link and half outside giving a triangular shape - not just in appearance but also in functionality. But positioning rotated squares is a tedious task because the dimensions are all out of control. Hence we apply some math to scale down the rotated squares to occupy the same height as the links so that positioning them becomes easy. This tutorial also uses CSS Counters to number the breadcrumb links. The first breadcrumb displays the use of gradients for the links whereas the second demo uses flat colors along with transitioned hover effects for the navigation.