Breadcrumb (navigation)
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Breadcrumbs or breadcrumb trails are terms taken from the trail of bread crumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in the popular fairytale.
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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.
Breadcrumbs typically appear horizontally across the top of a webpage, usually below any title bars or headers. They provide links back to each previous page that the user navigated through in order to get to the current page. Breadcrumbs provide a trail for the user to follow back to the starting/entry point of a website. They may look something like this:
Home page → Section page → Sub section page
There are three types of web breadcrumbs:
[edit] Path
Path breadcrumbs are dynamic and show the path that the user has taken to arrive at a page.
[edit] Location
Location breadcrumbs are static and show where the page is located in the website hierarchy.
[edit] Attribute
Attribute breadcrumbs give information that categorizes the current page.
[edit] Global Positioning System (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.
[edit] External links
- Breadcrumb Navigation - Statistics by Heidi Adkisson, 2002.
- 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
