breadcrumbs

See also: bread crumbs

English

Sense 2. A trail of hyperlinks, displayed as a guide to make navigating easier.

Alternative forms

bread crumbs

Etymology

Computing sense: a reference to the German fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, where Hansel leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to find the way back home when venturing into the woods.

Noun

breadcrumbs

plural of breadcrumb
(Internet, graphical user interface) A trail of hyperlinks that lead consecutively to the current page, displayed in the page as a guide and a means of navigating easily to any of the pages in the trail.

Translations

trail of hyperlinks

Czech: drobečková navigace
Finnish: leivänmurut

French: fil d’Ariane (fr)

Verb

breadcrumbs

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of breadcrumb

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