what is breadcrumb?

[Theomax]

Breadcrumbs or breadcrumbs trail is a graphical control element used as a navigational aid in user interfaces. It allows users to keep track of their locations within programs, documents, or websites. The term comes from the trail ofbread crumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in the fairy tale of the same name.

 

[eluminousva]

Breadcrumbs typically appear horizontally across the top of a Web page, often below title bars or headers. They provide links back to each previous page the user navigated through to get to the current page or—in hierarchical site structures—the parent pages of the current one.

 

[RH-Calvin]

Breadcrumbs are equally beneficial to the search engines as they are to users. They provide logical access to all the inner and outer pages of your site, a practice highly favored by search engines.

 

[Jack Ramon]

Breadcrumbs are links that allow a user to track their path from the page they are currently viewing to the home page of your website. They appear close to the top of your page and reflect the structure of your site.

 

[Yashmin]

Breadcrumbs are links that allow a user to track their path from the page they are currently viewing to the home page of your website.

 

[andreausa]

Breadcrumbs allow a user to retrace their steps from your home page to the page that they’re currently viewing. They can reflect the structure of your website, a logical path or attributes of the current page. In this so many types of breadcrumbs are there, like location breadcrumbs, path breadcrumbs, attribute or keyword breadcrumbs.