Dotted Separator
Ellipsis dots between crumbs that expand on hover for a subtle kinetic effect.
Dotted Separator the 17th 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-17" aria-label="Breadcrumb">
<ol class="bc-17__list">
<li class="bc-17__item"><a class="bc-17__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Home</a></li>
<li class="bc-17__item"><a class="bc-17__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Design</a></li>
<li class="bc-17__item">
<a class="bc-17__link bc-17__link--cur" aria-current="page" href="javascript:void(0)"
>Tokens</a
>
</li>
</ol>
</nav> .bc-17__list {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.bc-17__item + .bc-17__item::before {
content: "···";
padding: 0 10px;
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.18);
font-size: 14px;
letter-spacing: 2px;
transition:
color 0.25s,
letter-spacing 0.3s;
}
.bc-17__item:hover + .bc-17__item::before {
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.45);
letter-spacing: 4px;
}
.bc-17__link {
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: 500;
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.55);
text-decoration: none;
transition: color 0.25s;
}
.bc-17__link:hover {
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.85);
}
.bc-17__link--cur {
color: #fff;
pointer-events: none;
}