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.
Responsive breadcrumb built with the latest Bootstrap 5.
Breadcrumbs are used as a high-level representation of where users have navigated. Users can click the links to go back to previous pages.
All items must contain links, and the last item must be selected.
<nav aria-label="breadcrumb">
<ol class="breadcrumb">
<li class="breadcrumb-item active" aria-current="page">Home</li>
</ol>
</nav>
<nav aria-label="breadcrumb">
<ol class="breadcrumb">
<li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li class="breadcrumb-item active" aria-current="page">Library</li>
</ol>
</nav>
<nav aria-label="breadcrumb">
<ol class="breadcrumb">
<li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Library</a></li>
<li class="breadcrumb-item active" aria-current="page">Data</li>
</ol>
</nav>Add an icon to the breadcrumb component.
<nav aria-label="breadcrumb">
<ol class="breadcrumb">
<li class="breadcrumb-item">
<a href="#"><i class="fas fa-home me-1"></i>Home</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumb-item">
<a href="#">Library</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumb-item active" aria-current="page">
<a href="#">Data</a>
</li>
</ol>
</nav>Add a dropdown to the breadcrumb component.
<nav aria-label="breadcrumb">
<ol class="breadcrumb">
<li class="breadcrumb-item">
<a href="#">Home</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumb-item">
<a href="#">Library</a>
</li>
<li class="breadcrumb-item active" aria-current="page">
<a class="dropdown-toggle" href="#" data-bs-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="false">Data</a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li>
<a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Action</a>
</li>
<li><a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Another action</a></li>
<li><a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Something else here</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
</nav>Dividers are automatically added in CSS through ::before and content. They can be changed by modifying a local CSS custom property --bs-breadcrumb-divider, or through the $breadcrumb-divider Sass variable — and $breadcrumb-divider-flipped for its RTL counterpart, if needed. We default to our Sass variable, which is set as a fallback to the custom property. This way, you get a global divider that you can override without recompiling CSS at any time.
<nav style="--bs-breadcrumb-divider: '>';" aria-label="breadcrumb">
<ol class="breadcrumb">
<li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li class="breadcrumb-item active" aria-current="page">Library</li>
</ol>
</nav>When modifying via Sass, the quote function is required to generate the quotes around a string. For example, using > as the divider, you can use this:
$breadcrumb-divider: quote(">");It’s also possible to use an embedded SVG icon. Apply it via our CSS custom property, or use the Sass variable.
<nav style="--bs-breadcrumb-divider: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='8' height='8'%3E%3Cpath d='M2.5 0L1 1.5 3.5 4 1 6.5 2.5 8l4-4-4-4z' fill='currentColor'/%3E%3C/svg%3E");" aria-label="breadcrumb">
<ol class="breadcrumb">
<li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li class="breadcrumb-item active" aria-current="page">Library</li>
</ol>
</nav>$breadcrumb-divider: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='8' height='8'%3E%3Cpath d='M2.5 0L1 1.5 3.5 4 1 6.5 2.5 8l4-4-4-4z' fill='currentColor'/%3E%3C/svg%3E");You can also remove the divider setting --bs-breadcrumb-divider: ''; (empty strings in CSS custom properties counts as a value), or setting the Sass variable to $breadcrumb-divider: none;.
For more information, visit the Bootstrap 5 Breadcrumb page.