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How to Effectively Customize Breadcrumbs for an Improved User Experience

Breadcrumbs  (or a breadcrumb trail)  is a secondary navigation device on websites that show a user's location within the site.

On large sites such as 91视频's, which organize content in a hierarchy of logical groupings, breadcrumbs provide a visual aid showing the viewer where they are, where they can go, and related content they can view.

Breadcrumbs are especially helpful for viewers who land on a page deep within a site after using a search engine.

Example breadcrumb:

 

Words in a breadcrumb

 

Why would I want to customize a breadcrumb?

By default, the Drupal Web CMS creates a breadcrumb trail for every page and populates the end of the trail with a page's full title.

These long, descriptive page titles are helpful for supplying detailed information for search engines, or for viewers who land there. But they can look wordy in a breadcrumb, which is meant to be a compact, visual locator.

Example of a long breadcrumb:
 

Example of long breadcrumb
How do I customize a breadcrumb?
  • With page open for editing, select Breadcrumb in righthand menu
  • Enter custom breadcrumb
Breadcrumb menu
Can I customize any segment of a breadcrumb trail?

Yes, but keep these things in mind before making a change:

  • If you customize the breadcrumb on a page that serves as the landing page / parent page for a section, that change is applied to the breadcrumb trail on all its child pages.
  • Always follow the best practices described on this page for breadcrumb terms.
What best practices should I follow?
  • Avoid using acronyms, such as an abbreviation for a department, since these may not be widely known.
  • When shortening a page title, use key terms relating to the content, as in this example:

 Default breadcrumb using full page title:

Example of long breadcrumb

Shortened breadcrumb:

Example of short breadcrumb