Breadcrumbs
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Also called: breadcrumb trail.

Breadcrumbs is a path to the current page from each preceding level of the site's hierarchy.

• Required on Canada.ca

• GitHub
• Figma

Breadcrumbs is a required component for standard and campaign pages on Canada.ca.

Check out use cases for breadcrumbs to see if they fit the problem you're solving for.

Problems breadcrumbs solve

Use breadcrumbs to signal a visitor's current location and give them a sense of place in the navigation model, and to:

• Provide a linear way to move between multiple levels of a website.
• Surface part of the site's structure to help people understand where to find what they need.
• Situate the current page in relation to its parent in the site structure.
• Organize websites in a hierarchy of more than two levels.

Related components

Footer for placing the Government of Canada branded footer landmark.

Header for placing the Government of Canada branded header landmark.

Top navigation for guiding navigation through a website using a landmark.