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Breadcrumb

The breadcrumb is a secondary navigation pattern that helps a user understand the hierarchy among levels and navigate back through them.

Breadcrumbs show users their current location relative to the information architecture and enable them to quickly move up to a parent level or previous step.

When to use

  • Breadcrumbs are effective in products and experiences that have a large amount of content organized in a hierarchy of more than two levels. They take up little space but still provide context for the user’s place in the navigation hierarchy.

When not to use

  • Breadcrumbs are always treated as secondary and should never entirely replace the primary navigation. They shouldn’t be used for products that have single level navigation because they create unnecessary clutter.

Formatting

  • Page link(1): Directs users to the parent-level page.

  • Separator(2): Clearly distinguishes between each page.

By default, breadcrumb trails should not include the current page. If a page doesn’t have a title or the current page is not clear, it can be included in the breadcrumb trail. If the current page is included in a breadcrumb trail, it is always the last text listed and is not an interactive link.

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Carbon Design System Usage for Breadcrumb

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