Breadcrumb (navigation)
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Breadcrumbs or breadcrumb trails is a navigation technique used in user interfaces. Its purpose is to give users a way to keep track of their location within programs or documents.
The technique takes its name from the bread crumb trail left by Hansel and Gretel in the popular fairy tale.
Websites
Bread crumbs typically appear horizontally near the top of a webpage, providing links back to each previous page that the user navigates through in order to get to the current page. They provide a trail for the user to follow back to the starting/entry point of a website and may look something like this:
Home page → Section page → Sub section pageThere are three types of web breadcrumbs:
Path
Path breadcrumbs are dynamic and show the path that the user has taken to arrive at a page..Location
Location breadcrumbs are static and show where the page is located in the website hierarchy.Attribute
Attribute breadcrumbs give information that categorises the current page.GPS
Advanced GPS tools may keep track of the motion of a GPS device bearer by recording the positions of the traveller at specified time moments and presenting them at a GPS display as a "breadcrumb trail" of position markers.External links
- [Breadcrumb Navigation: Further Investigation of Usage] by Bonnie Lida Rogers and Barbara Chaparro, 2003
- [Influence of Training and Exposure on the Usage of Breadcrumb Navigation] by Spring S. Hull, 2004
- [Location, Path & Attribute Breadcrumbs] by Keith Instone
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