Retro Terminal Path
Unix path-style breadcrumbs with a blinking cursor — looks like navigating a filesystem.
Retro Terminal Path the 9th 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-09" aria-label="Breadcrumb">
<ol class="bc-09__list">
<li class="bc-09__item">
<span class="bc-09__prompt" aria-hidden="true">~</span
><a class="bc-09__link" href="javascript:void(0)">home</a>
</li>
<li class="bc-09__item">
<span class="bc-09__sep" aria-hidden="true">/</span
><a class="bc-09__link" href="javascript:void(0)">projects</a>
</li>
<li class="bc-09__item">
<span class="bc-09__sep" aria-hidden="true">/</span
><a class="bc-09__link bc-09__link--cur" aria-current="page" href="javascript:void(0)"
>css-tabs</a
>
</li>
<span class="bc-09__cursor" aria-hidden="true">_</span>
</ol>
</nav> .bc-09 {
background: #050a00;
border-radius: 8px;
padding: 10px 16px;
border: 1px solid rgba(30, 217, 138, 0.2);
font-family: monospace;
display: inline-block;
}
.bc-09__list {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
gap: 0;
}
.bc-09__item {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
.bc-09__prompt {
color: rgba(30, 217, 138, 0.5);
margin-right: 4px;
}
.bc-09__sep {
color: rgba(30, 217, 138, 0.3);
padding: 0 2px;
}
.bc-09__link {
font-size: 13px;
color: rgba(30, 217, 138, 0.55);
text-decoration: none;
transition: color 0.2s;
}
.bc-09__link:hover {
color: #1ed98a;
}
.bc-09__link--cur {
color: #1ed98a;
pointer-events: none;
}
.bc-09__cursor {
color: #1ed98a;
animation: bc09blink 0.7s step-end infinite;
margin-left: 2px;
}
@keyframes bc09blink {
50% {
opacity: 0;
}
}