Bootstrap Breadcrumb Tutorial with Examples

Breadcrumb
Breadcrumb Separator

1. Breadcrumb

Breadcrumb is a navigation menu which is located horizontally. It helps users to imagine the location of current page that they are accessing. Breadcrumb is usually used in the websites withlarge number of pages and content hierarchy, such as guiding and looking-up websites, ...

Below is the illustration of a website using Breadcrumb:

Example:

first-breadcrumb-example.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <meta charset="utf-8">
      <title>Bootstrap Breadcrumb</title>
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">
   </head>
   <body>
      <div class="container">
         <h4>Bootstrap Breadcrumb</h4>

         <ul class="breadcrumb">
            <li class="breadcrumb-item active" aria-current="page">Tutorials</li>
         </ul>

         <ul class="breadcrumb">
            <li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Tutorials</a></li>
            <li class="breadcrumb-item active" aria-current="page">Frontend</li>
         </ul>

         <ul class="breadcrumb">
            <li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Tutorials</a></li>
            <li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Frontend</a></li>
            <li class="breadcrumb-item active" aria-current="page">Bootstrap</li>
         </ul>

      </div>

      <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.slim.min.js"></script>
      <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.3/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
      <script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
   </body>
</html>

HTML5 was introduced a system of tags and attributes supporting the devices such as Screen Reader for the blind. And the Bootstrap recommends you to use it to be suitable for the standards of a modern website.

The <nav> tage is one of tags supporting the equipment such as Screen Reader. When these devices detect the <nav> tag and understand that this is the navigation area. You can use other tags like <div>, <span> instead of <nav>, but they need more the role = "navigation" attribute.

This is simple coding for you to create a Breadcrumb, Note: this coding is not friendly with the equipment such as Screen Reader:

<ul class="breadcrumb">
   <li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Tutorials</a></li>
   <li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Frontend</a></li>
   <li class="breadcrumb-item active" aria-current="page">Bootstrap</li>
</ul>

And this is coding to create a Breadcrumb and friendly with the equipment such as Screen Reader:

<!-- nav -->

<nav aria-label="breadcrumb">
   <ul class="breadcrumb">
      <li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Tutorials</a></li>
      <li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Frontend</a></li>
      <li class="breadcrumb-item active" aria-current="page">Bootstrap</li>
   </ul>
</nav>

<!-- div -->
<div role= "navigation" aria-label="breadcrumb">
   <ul class="breadcrumb">
      <li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Tutorials</a></li>
      <li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Frontend</a></li>
      <li class="breadcrumb-item active" aria-current="page">Bootstrap</li>
   </ul>
</div>

2. Breadcrumb Separator

By default, the Bootstrap uses / mark to to separate breadcrumb-item. And you can replace it with another thing.

.breadcrumb-item + .breadcrumb-item::before         {
   font-family: 'fontAwesome';
   content: "\f101" !important;
}

Use "Base64 SVG Icon":

.breadcrumb-item + .breadcrumb-item::before {
   content: url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI4IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjgiPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0yLjUgMEwxIDEuNSAzLjUgNCAxIDYuNSAyLjUgOGw0LTQtNC00eiIgZmlsbD0iY3VycmVudENvbG9yIi8+PC9zdmc+) !important;
}

Use Image Icon:

.breadcrumb-item + .breadcrumb-item::before         {
    content: url(../images/right-arrow-16.png) !important;
}

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