How to create a Breadcrumb Navigation with CSS

Breadcrumbs are a secondary navigation aid that helps users easily navigate through a website. Breadcrumbs provide you an orientation and show you exactly where you are within the website’s hierarchy.

Steps for creating breadcrumbs using CSS

Step 1: Create an HTML list of the navigation links.

<ul class="breadcrumb-navigation">
    <li><a href="home">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="webdev">Web Development</a></li>
    <li><a href="frontenddev">Frontend Development</a></li>
    <li>JavaScript</li>
</ul>

Step 2: Set the CSS display: inline in order to show the list in the same line.

.breadcrumb-navigation > li {
  display: inline;
}

Step 3: Add a separator after every list element.

.breadcrumb-navigation li + li:before {
  padding: 4px;
  content: "/";
}

Example Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <style>
        .breadcrumb-navigation {
            padding: 10px 18px;
            background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);
        }
        .breadcrumb-navigation>li {
            display: inline;
        }
        .breadcrumb-navigation>li>a {
            color: #026ece;
            text-decoration: none;
        }
        .breadcrumb-navigation>li>a:hover {
            color: #6fc302;
            text-decoration: underline;
        }
        .breadcrumb-navigation li+li:before {
            padding: 4px;
            content: "/";
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <h1 style="color: green">GeeksforGeeks</h1>
    <ul class="breadcrumb-navigation">
        <li>
            <a href="home">
                Home
            </a>
        </li>
        <li>
            <a href="webdev">
                Web Development
            </a>
        </li>
        <li>
            <a href="frontenddev">
                Frontend Development
            </a>
        </li>
        <li>JavaScript</li>
    </ul>
</body>
</html>

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