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Breadcrumbs

Use breadcrumbs to show navigational context on pages that are many levels deep in a site’s hierarchy. Breadcrumbs show and link to parent, grandparent, and sometimes great-grandparent pages.
  • Alpha
  • Not reviewed for accessibility
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import {Breadcrumbs} from '@primer/react'

Breadcrumbs are used to show taxonomical context on pages that are many levels deep in a site’s hierarchy. Breadcrumbs show and link to parent, grandparent, and sometimes great-grandparent pages. Breadcrumbs are most appropriate on pages that:

  • Are many levels deep on a site
  • Do not have a section-level navigation
  • May need the ability to quickly go back to the previous (parent) page

To use Breadcrumbs with react-router or react-router-dom, pass as={NavLink} and omit the selected prop. This ensures that the NavLink gets activeClassName='selected'

Examples

Props

Breadcrumbs

NameTypeDefaultDescription
children
Breadcrumbs.Item[]
sx
SystemStyleObject
Style overrides to apply to the component. See also overriding styles.

Breadcrumbs.Item

NameTypeDefaultDescription
selected
boolean
false
ref
React.RefObject<HTMLAnchorElement>
A ref to the element rendered by this component. Because this component is polymorphic, the type will vary based on the value of the as prop.
as
React.ElementType
"a"The underlying element to render — either a HTML element name or a React component.
sx
SystemStyleObject
Style overrides to apply to the component. See also overriding styles.
Additional props are passed to the <a> element. See a docs for a list of props accepted by the <a> element.

Status

Alpha

  • Component props and basic example usage of the component are documented on primer.style/react.
  • Component does not have any unnecessary third-party dependencies.
  • Component can adapt to different themes.
  • Component can adapt to different screen sizes.
  • Component has robust unit test coverage (100% where achievable).
  • Component has visual regression coverage of its default and interactive states.
  • Component does not introduce any axe violations.
  • Component has been manually reviewed by the accessibility team and any resulting issues have been addressed.

Beta

  • Component is used in a production application.
  • Common usage examples are documented on primer.style/react.
  • Common usage examples are documented in storybook stories.
  • Component has been reviewed by a systems designer and any resulting issues have been addressed.
  • Component does not introduce any performance regressions.

Stable

  • Component API has been stable with no breaking changes for at least one month.
  • Feedback on API usability has been sought from developers using the component and any resulting issues have been addressed.
  • Component has corresponding design guidelines documented in the interface guidelines.
  • Component has corresponding Figma component in the Primer Web library.
  • Tooling (such as linters, codemods, etc.) exists to prevent further use of alternatives.