Working with breadcrumbs

Background

The site “Breadcrumb” a navigational You are here of web page hierarchy. It shows the website’s navigational depth from highest to lowest, starting at the home page and ending with the page the user is visiting. It improves navigational usability for users who have arrived from other sources or who are on links deep within the site.

Image showing the breadcrumb trail in site navigation

Customize the page breadcrumb

Breadcrumb structure comes from the parts of the page path. Each forward slash (/) represents a different level:

  • A page whose path has only one level (e.g., /visiting-faculty) will display a breadcrumb of Home > Visiting Faculty.

  • A page whose path has has multiple levels (e.g., /about/staff/visiting-faculty) will display a breadcrumb of Home > About Us > Staff Directory > Visiting Faculty. Note: in this example, pages with paths at /about and /about/staff must exist in the site for the breadcrumb to work.

How do I change the page path?

See Working with page paths

Remove the page breadcrumb

See Remove breadcrumb.