Scale Peek
On hover the whole list dims and scales down — only the hovered crumb scales up to full.
Scale Peek the 14th 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-14" aria-label="Breadcrumb">
<ol class="bc-14__list">
<li class="bc-14__item"><a class="bc-14__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Home</a></li>
<li class="bc-14__item"><a class="bc-14__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Blog</a></li>
<li class="bc-14__item">
<a class="bc-14__link bc-14__link--cur" aria-current="page" href="javascript:void(0)">Post</a>
</li>
</ol>
</nav> .bc-14__list {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.bc-14__item + .bc-14__item::before {
content: "›";
padding: 0 8px;
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2);
font-size: 16px;
}
.bc-14__link {
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: 500;
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.45);
text-decoration: none;
transition:
color 0.25s,
opacity 0.25s,
transform 0.25s;
}
.bc-14__list:hover .bc-14__link {
opacity: 0.35;
transform: scale(0.96);
}
.bc-14__list:hover .bc-14__link:hover {
opacity: 1;
transform: scale(1.05);
color: #fff;
}
.bc-14__link--cur {
color: #8b7fff;
pointer-events: none;
}