Holographic Shimmer
Current page gets a looping rainbow holographic background. Past crumbs are plain text.
Holographic Shimmer the 15th 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-15" aria-label="Breadcrumb">
<ol class="bc-15__list">
<li class="bc-15__item"><a class="bc-15__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Home</a></li>
<li class="bc-15__item"><a class="bc-15__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Motion</a></li>
<li class="bc-15__item">
<a class="bc-15__link bc-15__link--cur" aria-current="page" href="javascript:void(0)"
><span class="bc-15__shine" aria-hidden="true"></span
><span class="bc-15__text">Effects</span></a
>
</li>
</ol>
</nav> .bc-15__list {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
.bc-15__item {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
.bc-15__item + .bc-15__item::before {
content: "/";
padding: 0 12px;
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2);
}
.bc-15__link {
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: 500;
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.55);
text-decoration: none;
transition: color 0.25s;
}
.bc-15__link:hover {
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);
}
.bc-15__link--cur {
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
display: inline-flex;
align-items: center;
padding: 4px 12px;
border-radius: 6px;
pointer-events: none;
}
.bc-15__shine {
position: absolute;
inset: 0;
background: linear-gradient(105deg, #8b7fff, #ff6b9d, #3de8f5, #1ed98a, #f5a84a, #8b7fff);
background-size: 300% 100%;
animation: bc15holo 3s linear infinite;
}
@keyframes bc15holo {
from {
background-position: 0% 50%;
}
to {
background-position: 300% 50%;
}
}
.bc-15__text {
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
color: #fff;
font-weight: 700;
}