Submitted by Kady on June 23, 2015 - 9:44am

In the vast world of the internet, it's easy to lose your way. One way to help your users stay grounded is to use breadcrumbs.

Breadcrumbs are a method of navigation that shows a user where they are on your site.

In NationBuilder, the breadcrumbs.html file controls the navigation within the site pages. It typically follows this format: page / subpage / sub-subpage. With the Buildy breadcrumbs.html, all of those page links are clickable - making site back-navigation more simple and intuitive.

Having site breadcrumbs is a good design practice, and is helpful for SEO .

Most of the popular platforms for website development have methods for implementing breadcrumbs. Resource links follow. Make sure you scroll past them to see a code snippet of our implementation of breadcrumbs in NationBuilder.