Collection of free HTML and CSS breadcrumb navigation code examples (simple, responsive, multiline, collapsed, etc.) from codepen and other resources. Update of December 2019 collection. 5 new items.
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Breadcrumbs Designs
Breadcrumbs designs (skewed, border-radius, click effect).
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: no
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Breadcrumb
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: no
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Breadcrumbs Сomponent
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
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Breadcrumb Experiment
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
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Refactoring UI - Breadcrumbs
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: no
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CSS Cut-Up Breadcrumbs
Breadcrumbs show the hierarchy of content between the site's root and the user's current location.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: no
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- HTML (Pug) / CSS (Stylus)
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Vertical Breadcrumb
Simple CSS vertical breadcrumbs.

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- HTML / CSS (SCSS)
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Breadcrumb With Dropdown Navigation
Feel free to customize it to your own way. Colors, sizes, shadows, borders, etc. Made with Bootstrap.

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Breadcrumbs with 'Smart' Ellipsis (Flex)
Play with the browser size to see how the breadcrumbs behave when there's no room left for them.

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- HTML
- CSS/Sass
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Breadcrumbs Navigation
This example shows what happens as a user gets closer to the back button. The breadcrumbs expand and allow the user to navigate to almost anywhere else in the course while only having minimal impact on space.

CSS Breadcrumbs
Breadcrumbs with CSS custom properties as API.
Made by Stas Melnikov
June 15, 2017

Multi-Line Breadcrumb Arrows
Adaptive multi-line pure CSS breadcrumb arrows.
Made by Glynn Smith
May 30, 2017

Breadcrumbs
HTML and CSS breadcrumbs.
Made by Dany Santos
July 15, 2016

Breadcrumb, Progress Tracker
Material Design breadcrumb, progress tracker.
Made by Shyam Chen
July 30, 2015

Collapsed Breadcrumbs
A list of breadcrumbs collapsed down to show only preview text for all but the current page, with full text shown on hover/focus.
Made by Skye
March 4, 2015

Responsive Breadcrumbs
Pure CSS responsive breadcrumbs.
Made by Oliver Knoblich
April 2, 2014

Tiny CSS3 Breadcrumb
Tiny CSS3 round breadcrumb.
Made by Renaud Tertrais
October 4, 2013

Expandable Breadcrumbs
Perfect for pages with long titles.
Made by Phelipe M Peres
October 3, 2013

CSS3 Breadcrumb
Flat HTML and CSS3 breadcrumb.
Made by Renaud Tertrais
September 30, 2013

Pure CSS3 Breadcrumb
Breadcrumb navigation using pure CSS3.
Made by Arkev
April 16, 2013