Arrow Chain
CSS arrow-chevron breadcrumbs using border triangles — no SVG or images needed.
Arrow Chain the 16th of 22 designs in the 22 CSS Breadcrumbs collection. The design is implemented in pure CSS — no JavaScript required. Copy the HTML and CSS panels below into your project. Because the demo is pure CSS, it works in any framework or templating engine you happen to use. The design honours prefers-reduced-motion and uses real semantic markup, so it ships accessibility-ready out of the box.
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The code
<nav class="bc-16" aria-label="Breadcrumb">
<ol class="bc-16__list">
<li class="bc-16__item"><a class="bc-16__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Home</a></li>
<li class="bc-16__item"><a class="bc-16__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Shop</a></li>
<li class="bc-16__item">
<a class="bc-16__link bc-16__link--cur" aria-current="page" href="javascript:void(0)"
>Product</a
>
</li>
</ol>
</nav> .bc-16__list {
display: flex;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
.bc-16__item {
display: flex;
}
.bc-16__link {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
padding: 8px 12px 8px 24px;
position: relative;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: 600;
background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.06);
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.45);
text-decoration: none;
margin-left: -10px;
transition:
background 0.25s,
color 0.25s;
}
.bc-16__item:first-child .bc-16__link {
padding-left: 16px;
border-radius: 8px 0 0 8px;
margin-left: 0;
}
.bc-16__link::after {
content: "";
position: absolute;
right: -10px;
top: 0;
width: 0;
height: 100%;
border-top: 19px solid transparent;
border-bottom: 19px solid transparent;
border-left: 10px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.06);
z-index: 1;
transition: border-left-color 0.25s;
}
.bc-16__link:hover {
background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.12);
color: #fff;
z-index: 2;
}
.bc-16__link:hover::after {
border-left-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.12);
}
.bc-16__link--cur {
background: #8b7fff;
color: #fff;
pointer-events: none;
z-index: 2;
border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0;
}
.bc-16__link--cur::after {
display: none;
}