Use breadcrumbs to show navigation from the current location to less specific locations. Note that the final item representing the current page is not presented.
<nav aria-label="breadcrumb example">
<ol class="breadcrumbs">
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Domain</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Kingdom</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Phylum</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Class</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Order</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Family</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Genus</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Species</a>
</li>
</ol>
</nav>
The final item representing the current page is omitted in the default example. If for some reason it must be included add .breadcrumbs-item-slashless
to the final item to remove slash along with aria-current="page"
attribute and wrap it into span
instead of an anchor
tag.
<nav aria-label="breadcrumb example highlighting current location">
<ol class="breadcrumbs">
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Family</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Genus</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumbs-item breadcrumbs-item-slashless" aria-current="page">
<span>Species</span>
</li>
</ol>
</nav>
Some situations may require the inclusion of a slash previous the first breadcrumb item. If this is the case, you can achieve this with .breadcrumbs.breadcrumbs-initial-slash
.
By default .breadcrumbs
are just slightly smaller than the document's font size. However, you may use font size atomics to easily change the size of all the breadcrumbs. See example below, where font-size-xl
is applied the the .breadcrumbs
element.
<nav aria-label="breadcrumb example with size modification">
<ol class="breadcrumbs font-size-xl">
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Domain</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Kingdom</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Phylum</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Class</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Order</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Family</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Genus</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumbs-item">
<a href="#">Species</a>
</li>
</ol>
</nav>