Frosted Glass
Glass pill breadcrumbs with backdrop-filter over a gradient background.
Frosted Glass the 6th 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-06" aria-label="Breadcrumb">
<ol class="bc-06__list">
<li class="bc-06__item"><a class="bc-06__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Home</a></li>
<li class="bc-06__item"><a class="bc-06__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Docs</a></li>
<li class="bc-06__item">
<a class="bc-06__link bc-06__link--cur" aria-current="page" href="javascript:void(0)"
>Guide</a
>
</li>
</ol>
</nav> .bc-06 {
background:
radial-gradient(60% 120% at 20% 50%, rgba(139, 127, 255, 0.5), transparent),
radial-gradient(50% 100% at 80% 50%, rgba(255, 107, 157, 0.4), transparent), #09090f;
padding: 12px 16px;
border-radius: 14px;
}
.bc-06__list {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 0;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
.bc-06__item + .bc-06__item::before {
content: "/";
padding: 0 10px;
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25);
font-size: 13px;
}
.bc-06__link {
padding: 5px 12px;
border-radius: 8px;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: 500;
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.55);
text-decoration: none;
border: 1px solid transparent;
transition:
backdrop-filter 0.3s,
background 0.3s,
border-color 0.3s,
color 0.3s;
}
.bc-06__link:hover {
background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1);
backdrop-filter: blur(12px);
border-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.15);
color: #fff;
}
.bc-06__link--cur {
background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.15);
backdrop-filter: blur(16px);
border-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25);
color: #fff;
pointer-events: none;
}