The term or English Breadcrumb navigation designates navigation elements on web pages, which point the path to the current side.

The name "“Breadcrumb navigation"” comes from the fairy tale and Gretel of the brothers Grimm, in that the children led into the forest (also: Brotkrumen, English "“breadcrumbs"”) on the way scatter back, in order to find the way. A comparable motive for legend is the Ariadnefaden.

Application

Breadcrumb Navigationen are usually represented within the upper range of a web page horizontal and their individual elements left in each case to the superordinate side.

Kinds of navigation

It is differentiated between the following kinds of navigation:

Location (place)

Location Breadcrumbs indicate the current position to the side on the basis the categories in the purchase to the starting side. Thus the visitor sees on a view, how the straight visited side is categorized.

Example:

Path (path)

Path Breadcrumbs indicate the sides called last successively. Thus is evident to the visitor, on who way he came to the current side and this can navigate thereby also accordingly back.

Example:

Attributes (characteristic)

Attribute Breadcrumbs show several different Navigationen, which lead in each case to the up-to-date called side on the basis Meta information.

Example:

Reasons for the use

• Breadcrumb navigation indicates accurately the place to the visitor of a side, where it up-to-date is.
• It offers to the visitor on the basis on the left of the possibility, to preceding or superordinate sides by mouse-clicks to change and also categories and/or visited sides to before jump over.

Related links

• Breadcrumb navigation: Ford ago Investigation OF Usage (English one)
• Influence OF training and Exposure on the Usage OF Breadcrumb navigation (English one)
• Location, Path & attributes Breadcrumbs (English one)

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