Playground · 22 demos
CSS Breadcrumbs Playground
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01 Pure CSS
Underline Grow
A gradient underline grows from left to right on hover. Current page uses a solid accent line.
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02 Pure CSS
Pill Breadcrumbs
Each crumb is a rounded pill. Hover blooms a background. Current page shows solid accent fill.
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03 Pure CSS
Diagonal Slash
Parallelogram-shaped crumbs using clip-path. Active fills with gradient; hover lifts slightly.
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04 Pure CSS
Neon Trail
Neon glow builds along each separator arrow. Current page pulses with a multi-layer glow.
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05 Pure CSS
Brutalist Hard Shadow
Hard offset box-shadows. Hover shifts the shadow. Current page inverts to a filled block.
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06 Pure CSS
Frosted Glass
Glass pill breadcrumbs with backdrop-filter over a gradient background.
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07 Pure CSS
Vertical Stacked
Vertical timeline-style breadcrumb with connecting dots and a glowing active indicator.
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08 Pure CSS
Editorial Numbered
Magazine-style numbered breadcrumbs. Active number swells; separator is a hairline rule.
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09 Pure CSS
Retro Terminal Path
Unix path-style breadcrumbs with a blinking cursor — looks like navigating a filesystem.
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10 Pure CSS
Gradient Text
Each crumb shifts from muted grey to a full gradient on hover. Current page always shows the gradient.
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11 Pure CSS
Chip with Icon
Rounded chip breadcrumbs each with an icon. Active chip fills with accent gradient.
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12 Pure CSS
Subway Line
Crumbs as metro stops on a horizontal line. The current page is the lit "you are here" stop with a soft pulsing glow.
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13 Pure CSS
Floating Island
Each crumb is a floating card that springs upward on hover with a shadow bloom.
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14 Pure CSS
Scale Peek
On hover the whole list dims and scales down — only the hovered crumb scales up to full.
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15 Pure CSS
Holographic Shimmer
Current page gets a looping rainbow holographic background. Past crumbs are plain text.
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16 Pure CSS
Arrow Chain
CSS arrow-chevron breadcrumbs using border triangles — no SVG or images needed.
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17 Pure CSS
Dotted Separator
Ellipsis dots between crumbs that expand on hover for a subtle kinetic effect.
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18 Pure CSS
Bordered Box
All crumbs share one bordered container with dividers. Active gets an inset top+bottom accent stroke.
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19 Pure CSS
Progress Track
Stepper-style breadcrumb with numbered nodes connected by a track line — great for multi-step flows.
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20 Pure CSS
Glassmorphism Bar
All crumbs live inside a single frosted glass pill container with blur and saturation.
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21 Pure CSS
Wave Underline
An animated SVG wave appears under each link on hover — the current page keeps the wave active.
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22 CSS+JS
Copy Path
Standard breadcrumb with a copy button that copies the current URL path and shows a toast.
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