Editorial Numbered
Magazine-style numbered breadcrumbs. Active number swells; separator is a hairline rule.
Editorial Numbered the 8th 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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<nav class="bc-08" aria-label="Breadcrumb">
<ol class="bc-08__list">
<li class="bc-08__item">
<span class="bc-08__num" aria-hidden="true">01</span
><a class="bc-08__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Home</a>
</li>
<li class="bc-08__item">
<span class="bc-08__num" aria-hidden="true">02</span
><a class="bc-08__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Articles</a>
</li>
<li class="bc-08__item bc-08__item--cur">
<span class="bc-08__num bc-08__num--cur" aria-hidden="true">03</span
><a class="bc-08__link bc-08__link--cur" aria-current="page" href="javascript:void(0)"
>Read</a
>
</li>
</ol>
</nav> .bc-08__list {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
gap: 0;
}
.bc-08__item {
display: flex;
align-items: baseline;
gap: 6px;
}
.bc-08__item + .bc-08__item {
padding-left: 20px;
margin-left: 20px;
border-left: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1);
}
.bc-08__num {
font-family: monospace;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: 700;
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.18);
letter-spacing: 0.06em;
transition:
color 0.3s,
font-size 0.35s cubic-bezier(0.23, 1, 0.32, 1);
}
.bc-08__num--cur {
color: #8b7fff;
font-size: 14px;
}
.bc-08__link {
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: 600;
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.38);
text-decoration: none;
transition: color 0.25s;
}
.bc-08__link:hover {
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.75);
}
.bc-08__link--cur {
color: #fff;
pointer-events: none;
}