Vertical Stacked
Vertical timeline-style breadcrumb with connecting dots and a glowing active indicator.
Vertical Stacked the 7th 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-07" aria-label="Breadcrumb">
<ol class="bc-07__list">
<li class="bc-07__item">
<span class="bc-07__dot" aria-hidden="true"></span
><a class="bc-07__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Home</a>
</li>
<li class="bc-07__item">
<span class="bc-07__dot" aria-hidden="true"></span
><a class="bc-07__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Projects</a>
</li>
<li class="bc-07__item bc-07__item--cur">
<span class="bc-07__dot bc-07__dot--cur" aria-hidden="true"></span
><a class="bc-07__link bc-07__link--cur" aria-current="page" href="javascript:void(0)"
>Dashboard</a
>
</li>
</ol>
</nav> .bc-07__list {
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0 0 0 10px;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
border-left: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1);
}
.bc-07__item {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 10px;
padding: 8px 0;
position: relative;
}
.bc-07__dot {
width: 9px;
height: 9px;
border-radius: 50%;
border: 2px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2);
background: transparent;
position: absolute;
left: -5px;
transition:
border-color 0.3s,
background 0.3s,
box-shadow 0.3s;
}
.bc-07__item:hover .bc-07__dot {
border-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.6);
}
.bc-07__dot--cur {
border-color: #8b7fff;
background: #8b7fff;
box-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(139, 127, 255, 0.6);
}
.bc-07__link {
padding-left: 18px;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: 500;
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.38);
text-decoration: none;
transition: color 0.25s;
}
.bc-07__link:hover {
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.75);
}
.bc-07__link--cur {
color: #fff;
pointer-events: none;
}