Breadcrumb

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.

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.

1. Page link: Directs users to the parent-level page.
2. Separator: Clearly distinguishes between each page.
3. Current Page: the current page title. Not interactive.

Breadcrumbs are placed in the top left portion of the page. They sit underneath the header and navigation, but above the page title.

• Each page link should be short and clearly reflect the location or entity it links to.
• Start with the highest level parent page and move deeper into the information architecture as the breadcrumb trail progresses.

• The current page indicator is always the last text listed and is not an interactive link.

When space becomes limited, use an overflow menu to truncate the breadcrumbs. The first and last two page links should be shown, but the remaining breadcrumbs in between are condensed into an overflow menu. Breadcrumbs should never wrap onto a second line.

To optimize for smaller views on XS (extra small) grids, abbreviate the full breadcrumb trail to show a link that would direct a user one level up in the site's hierarchy. For example, if a user were on the 'Renew Your Driver's License' page, they would be directed one level up to the 'Driver Licensing' page.