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Breadcrumb Trail




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 page

The Esperanto Wikipedia often used breadcrumbs as a predecessor to .

There 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.


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