Floating Island
Each crumb is a floating card that springs upward on hover with a shadow bloom.
Floating Island the 13th 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-13" aria-label="Breadcrumb">
<ol class="bc-13__list">
<li class="bc-13__item"><a class="bc-13__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Home</a></li>
<li class="bc-13__item"><a class="bc-13__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Collections</a></li>
<li class="bc-13__item">
<a class="bc-13__link bc-13__link--cur" aria-current="page" href="javascript:void(0)"
>Breadcrumbs</a
>
</li>
</ol>
</nav> .bc-13__list {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
gap: 8px;
flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.bc-13__item {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
.bc-13__item + .bc-13__item::before {
content: "→";
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.15);
font-size: 12px;
}
.bc-13__link {
display: block;
padding: 7px 16px;
border-radius: 10px;
background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05);
border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.08);
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: 500;
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.55);
text-decoration: none;
box-shadow: 0 2px 8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
transition:
background 0.3s,
border-color 0.3s,
color 0.3s,
transform 0.35s cubic-bezier(0.34, 1.56, 0.64, 1),
box-shadow 0.3s;
}
.bc-13__link:hover {
background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1);
border-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.18);
color: #fff;
transform: translateY(-3px);
box-shadow: 0 8px 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35);
}
.bc-13__link--cur {
background: rgba(139, 127, 255, 0.15);
border-color: rgba(139, 127, 255, 0.35);
color: #8b7fff;
transform: translateY(-3px);
box-shadow: 0 8px 20px rgba(139, 127, 255, 0.2);
pointer-events: none;
}