Questions tagged [breadcrumbs]
"Breadcrumbs" or "breadcrumb trail" is a navigation aid used in user interfaces. It allows users to keep track of their locations within programs or documents.
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Can I use the breadcrumb for the payment process like the progress bar design?
I wonder that whether the breadcrumb model can match to the steps of payment process like progress bar model. My design in the development process, I have delivered my files to developer who's doing ...
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Best way to make breadcrumb look clickable ( without underline and link colour )
I have a header section that look like this , just below the main header. The breadcrumb is on the left side and they are clickable. It doesn't seem obvious. Initially it was in a shade of blue which ...
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How to display deep nested forum names?
In the backend of the company-intranet there is an area where you validate the rights of an user. Since the intranet comes with a forum, you can set rights for users to moderate a specific forum.
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How to navigate up, down and sideways in a hierarchy of tasks?
I'm working on a workflow application (web) in which users work on projects.
Each project consists of a workflow of tasks, which can be nested to an arbitrary level
(subtasks).
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Non-fully-hierarchical website structure and use of breadcrumbs
I have a web page with a menu on the left. Each choice can bring to either:
A single page
A wizard
Or a hierarchical series of pages, where I can drill down.
Left panel Right side
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Alternative to breadcrumbs in navigating groups of content
I'm looking for other ways on how to help User easily navigate groups. Instead of going back to 'All Groups' via breadcrumbs, User may want to go directly to Group 9 while he/she is on Group 1 Details ...
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What font size should I use for navigational breadcrumbs? [closed]
I would like to know what font size I should use for the navigation breadcrumbs on my website.
Assuming that 16px is my default font size, should I am for 11px for the breadcrumbs? Or would that be ...
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Why breadcrumbs should not be used as a primary Navigation?
All of the blogs I have ready about breadcrumbs mention that breadcrumbs are used for secondary navigation and shouldn't really act as primary navigation. What is the reason for this convention?
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Clicking a Breadcrumb Link, Trigger Browser Back Button, or Forward?
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I have a set of breadcrumbs for a web site:
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When a user clicks on these, should I trigger the browser's back button using JS? Back n times? Or should these be regular a tags that ...
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Use of bread crumbs for hierarchical data?
I have an application which edits Heirarchial data.
Consider Level 1 items of Projects, Users, etc.
Now lets just consider Project for the sake of simplicity, and Projects are really driving this ...
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Searching for items in breadcrumbs and displaying them in flat list
We've got a highly structured hierarchy, which can be navigated using breadcrumbs. It does contain same keyword in some edge cases.
So imagine that our hierarchy looks like this:
Beer
Beer By Type
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Best practices in designing bread crumbs
I'm working on a website with large number of pages and trying to add a breadcrumb. These are a few things i found from researching internet. Are these best practices? Is there a better guideline in ...
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How can many separate breadcrumb paths be shown in a list?
Say for example we have
Path A > Path A1 > Path A2 > Final Thing A
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Path B > Path B1 > Path B2 > Final Thing B
and these are things that can be selected by a user up to n ...
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Different approach to breadcrumbs
I'm currently working on a website with a huge amount of content, exploring how breadcrumbs can be used more effectively. The website uses very traditional breadcrumbs currently: One > Two > ...
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Breadcrumbs for posts that belong to a few categories
Let say I have a post that belongs to 2 categories ("Queries" and "MySql"), and a tree structure is like that:
Programming>>Web>>Php>>Queries>>My Post
Programming>>DB>>MySql>>My Post
I doubt, what is ...
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Breadcrumbs - problem
We have tabbed navigation: PRODUCTS, PAYMENTS, TOOLS. This tabs do not have any landing page. When user clicks on tab second level navigation opens with different links. PRODUCTS tab have 4 different ...
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Breadcrumbs for Mobile
We are designing a responsive site and I was wondering if we need to use breadcrumbs for mobile version.
I did some research and most of big brands don't use breadcrumbs on their mobile site but I ...
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How should the favorites be organized in the breadcrumbs section?
During development of our application we found a problem related to breadcrumbs. We are not sure of two things.
The first is what should go up where the question makrs are located. Both tables are ...
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Is it a bad practice if we position breadcrumb to the right side of page header?
Our website is a marketing based site. We don’t have more than 4 levels in breadcrumb and have lots of space in the right side of the website.
Is there any issue if we put the breadcrumb on the right ...
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How much is too much when it comes to letting the user know what page they are on?
My site contains a list of reports that a user can browse. The main navigation of the site is done through a left-aligned menu. This is a mockup of the layout:
The report name which they are ...
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About Navigation Breadcrumb Blogspot...? [closed]
How important are breadcrumbs? I understand it is important for navigation but I'm not certain how important it is for SEO? Are there use cases where breadcrumbs do not help SEO - and therefore is not ...
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How to use breadcrumbs in a responsive layout?
I would like to use breadcrumbs on my responsive site. Breadcrumbs become less recognisable if the links wrap as the layout is then less recognisable. This creates an issue for my site as the width ...
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Is "You are here" in breadcrumbs redundant or necessary?
In breadcrumbs, is it necessary to indicate that "You are here"? Is it redundant? Is it already understood without that phrase?
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Breadcrumbs - is this a valid use?
Recently we've received a design that uses breadcrumbs, but specifies a breadcrumb for a page that does not exist. In effect, the breadcrumb in question, relates to a section of a top-level page. We'...
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A breadcrumb within a breadcrumb?
I'm creating a troubleshooting website and part of it is decision-tree based.
I plan to show the path the user is on in a breadcrumb-like fashion. If a user selects different options then they go ...
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How to show an item's context in a hierarchy
I'm trying to figure out a way to allow contextual navigation to nearby items in a large hierarchy. For example, say my hierarchy is countries, states, counties and citites.
When viewing a county, ...
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Should nodes without pages be included in breadcrumbs?
Often times there will be nodes in a navigation tree that do not warrant a page, as their main function is to categorize the content found beneath them. When a breadcrumb nav is present on a site, ...
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Breadcrumb navigation
I'm wondering if any one have any good knowledge about breadcrumb navigation and if you can use it as the only way to navigate backwards in a GUI (if you don't use the browser functionality)? And to ...
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How can I show the user where they are in a non-hierarchical page structure?
I am working on an interface for a system which enables users to browse a large model of a business' processes. The many items in this model are arranged in a "net" structure. When viewing a single ...
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Is a back button a good idea for mobile?
Is a back button a good idea for mobile?
(Disregard breadcrumbs on mobile in the image - those are addressed here Breadcrumbs: OK to use on mobile site?)
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Is there evidence that users ever look to a website's URL as a breadcrumb for navigation?
On-the-page breadcrumbs often mirror the directory path anyway. To my mind, it stands to reason that that clear, human-readable, hierarchical URLs can enhance a site's usability[1]. But I have no idea ...
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Is a large breadcrumb good enough for a page title?
We have a breadcrumb under the menu and and the page title under the bread crumb. Can I get rid of the page title since it is really just a repeat of the breadcrumb? BTW, this is a LOB application ...
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What is the name of the breadcrumb/workflow UI component?
What is the correct/best name for the UI component which acts like a breadcrumb trail but also indicates where the user is in a defined series of steps?
You see it all the time, something like:
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Breadcrumbs Alignment
Since aligning the breadcrumbs (it's actually a trace) to the left, our layout is more clean separating header (logo, login panel, navigation, breadcrumbs) from its content area (content title, ...
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Navigating a multi-part article in ios?
In my application I've got some multi-part articles, about test-driving a car. The articles are split into multiple section.
I'm using this control to navigate between the sections (note: it's not ...
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Where to place the '< Back' link or button?
I am building a simple transactional site with two step process both on web and mobile (responsive).
Target users both male & female age from 30-40 relatively tech savvy.
First page is a ...
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Can a visual progress bar be used as a navigational element?
We're having a bit of a debate here among teammates as to what would be a better UX solution, so I was hoping you guys could help me settle this.
We have a linear flow through a data-collection ...
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Is it okay to use breadcrumb navigation on some pages and not on others?
Breadcrumbs would be redundant for some of my pages and quite pointless, but effective on others which are a bit deeper.
Is it bad practice to only implement breadcrumbs on some of the pages?
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Is there something like 'chronological breadcrumbs'?
The MoinMoin wiki engine has a UI element I would like to add to my web application. It looks very similar to breadcrumbs, but it behaves in a different way. According to UI Patterns,
Breadcrumbs ...
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Is the term "breadcrumbs" internationally understood by users? Is it localized?
I was recently advised that the term "breadcumbs" was not understood globally by all readers of our documentation explaining how to develop UIs. The thought behinds this claim was that "breadcrumbs" ...
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Are breadcrumbs still in?
Despite NNGroup's praise, I notice none of the big players (StackExchange, Facebook, Google, YouTube) use breadcrumbs. None of the big ecommerce players either. Why is this?
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Link to homepage in breadcrumbs/logo in subfolder?
We recently launched our company blog. We created a new design for it to distinguish it from our regular shop design and give a more "blog experience". The blog is located at http://www.inktweb.nl/...
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Best location for breadcrumb in a blog
Are breadcrumbs still necessary based on current UX trends?
So for my site: for a single blog post, the level would be Home > Parent Category > Child Category > Blog Post. If I were to put ...
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Navigation design pattern for showing current state
I'm looking for a high-level navigation design pattern that will also show the current navigational state. (Ex: Dashboard, invoices, settings, etc...) I am currently planning on using an accordion ...
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Breadcrumb for Homepage/Landing
The site I'm making - and as a lot others do - has a unique homepage, which is more like an index to the site than a part of it; imagine an exclusive (and loud) layout scheme, elements, content, all ...
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Metro UI breadcrumb guidelines / examples?
Are there any guidelines for, or examples of breadcrumbs in metro UI applications? Especially for applications that have a deep hierarchical structure.
Edit: I'm not looking for guidelines on how ...
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Non clickable breadcrumbs to show a user's place in a booking process?
I have a case where there is a multi-step system that a user goes through, like an in depth booking process.
For example the user has to go through 6 steps to complete the booking, the system ...
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Slideable path-based breadcrumb
I want to make a path-based breadcrumb with pure css and am considering 'sliding' it when the path is too long.
For example:
path 1 > path 2 > path 3 > .......... > path n
If the ...
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Should 'Home' be included in website breadcrumbs?
This may vary based on your site hierarchy and IA but when configuring breadcrumbs should they include home or stop the first filter (categories, for example).
Which is better? I have seen both used ...
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Would Breadcrumbs be effective if they incorporate Dropdowns?
I'm currently thinking about adding a quite comprehensive section to a website: the section I'm talking about starts at level 3 of the overall website and itself has another four structural levels. ...
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