xBreadcrumbs (Extended Breadcrumbs) jQuery Plugins. jQuery Scripts & Tutorials.
Framework: jQuery Listed in: User Interface
Description
xBreadcrumbs (Extended Breadcrumbs) is a jQuery plug-in to create categorized breadcrumbs for your site. This may be useful if your website has a deep structure and you want allow your visitors to quickly navigate through one section of the site to another. xBreadcrumbs works with unordered lists (UL/LI) which would make your breadcrumbs fully optimized for search engines. An SEO freindly breadcrumb has many benefits.
Features
- Light-weight script (~3Kb)
- Easy to integrate
- Fully customizable via CSS
- Works with all modern browsers
How to Use
1.) Download xBreadcrumbs script. The package already contains jQuery framework.
2.) Add the following code to your <head>…</head> tag to connect jQuery framework, xBreadcrumbs plugin and CSS. (Make sure paths to files are correct.)
{code type=html}
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”../jquery-1.3.2.min.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”../xbreadcrumbs.js”></script>
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”../xbreadcrumbs.css” />
{/code}
3.) Create your breadcrumbs structure inside of your <body>…</body> tag.
{code type=html}
<ul id=”breadcrumbs”>
<li>
<a href=”#”>Home</a>
<ul>
<li><a href=”#”>Servers</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Desktop Computers</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Laptops</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href=”#”>Laptops</a>
<ul>
<li><a href=”#”>Dell</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>HP</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Apple</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>IBM</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href=”#”>Apple</a>
<ul>
<li><a href=”#”>MacBook Pro</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>MacBook Air</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href=”#”>MacBook Air</a></li>
</ul>
{/code}
4.) Use the following code (preferably inside of your <head>…</head> tag) to initialize xBreadcrumbs.
{code type=php}
<script type=”text/javascript”>
$(document).ready(function(){
$(’#breadcrumbs’).xBreadcrumbs();
});
</script>
{/code}
That’s it ;) Click the Demo button to see it in action.
Options
| Configuration Option | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| showSpeed | fast | Numeric value in milliseconds or jQuery string value (’fast’, ‘normal’, ’slow’). The parameter sets speed of sub level to appear. If empty then no transition is used. |
| hideSpeed | empty | Numeric value in milliseconds or jQuery string value (’fast’, ‘normal’, ’slow’). The parameter sets speed of sub level to hide. If empty then no transition is used. |
| collapsible |
false | Parameters enables collapsing of upper levels. |
| collapsedWidth |
10 (pixels) | Width of collapsed level. |
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lassom
November 11, 2009
This script is great! Does anyone know how to get it to work in WordPress? I added this to my WordPress theme and put it in the header.php file but it doesn’t render right at all. Has anyone done this? Any tips would be a life saver. Thanks!
ajaxBlender.com
November 16, 2009
Thank you lasson for the question. The above script is a common jQuery-based plugin and can be integrated into any CMS (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.), however it will require additional programming to function properly and to output the necessary structure for the HTML (see code samples above.)
ajaxBlender.com
November 16, 2009
Actually, I just ran this topic by our team, and we decided that we will create a WordPress Plugin for the Breadcrumbs script and will publish it to our site soon. Thanks again!
Alex
felix
December 16, 2009
Hi, I have a master header on a site that’s based on tpl files and wondering if this will work because I cannot get it to work at all.
Darren – ajaxBlender
December 17, 2009
Felix, the image rotation script we created should work via a TPL file without any problems. But we can help troubleshoot it with you. Could you supply a sample of the code and URL? This will help us see how you connect the code in the generated HTML file.
zenco
January 28, 2010
Amazing Grat work love jquery!!!
Alex Flueras
March 1, 2010
Really nice script. I will use it on my next projects. Thanks so much for sharing.
sadri
March 3, 2010
Thanks for the script
Michal Suski
March 29, 2010
Great script! But I can make it collapsible only when using submenus. Any idea?
Peter
March 30, 2010
Would be great if you could load the sublevels via Ajax!
ajaxBlender.com
March 30, 2010
Thanks Michal and Peter. Yes, this is not a problem to add. It would just be some extra coding. We actually made a similar script to add on to a client’s shopping cart in the past. Anyway, we may put it in a future update. I’ll post it here if we do it. Thanks!
Alex
Michal Suski
March 30, 2010
And what about collapsible crumbs with no submenus?
ricki
April 6, 2010
ok so, this breadcrumb doesn’t build when links are pressed, am i right? you have to set it up with your site links before hand? if so, why not call it a collapsable horizontal menu script? because in my experience breadcrumbs are to leave a trail of where u are on a website and where you’ve been previously.
Darren – ajaxBlender
April 9, 2010
ricki – to implement breadcrumbs you need two things: a server script which will return the full path from the home page to the current page and a client side script which will display this path in a nice and convenient way…the ajaxblender xBreadcrumbs script is a script for the client-side only…so, you will still need to generate the path from a server script… I checked with our lead developer, and we don’t think that xBreadcrumbs will prevent this type of call.
Srinivasan
May 25, 2010
The xbreadcrumb script is very good and useful. Thank you very much for the script. I faced z-index problem when i use along with horizontal superfish(jquery) menu.
Windows XP
Mozilla firefox 3.6.3 and IE 6
masonii
June 4, 2010
any solutions yet on getting this breadcrumb feature into wordpress? please help.
Erhan
August 11, 2010
Any update soon to create sub pulldowns via ajax?
Mak Diose
October 4, 2010
this is great. thanks for sharing this is very useful.
neeraj
October 12, 2010
awesome script… :)
GrafikaWarszawa
November 4, 2010
Yeah, great jquery fun…
Especially, this is based on list, so google will like this menus ;-)
amit
December 16, 2010
when i test this script on my website
then
Home
Scripts
Contact Us
is not perfectly vertical center in box instead they are at bottom aligned
every thing else fine
amit
December 16, 2010
Fixed my own Problem
just do below change in the xbreadcrumb.css file the
.xbreadcrumbs LI {
padding: 5px;
border-right: 1px solid #CECECE;
change->height: 20px; // original height is 16px
}
Nirmala
December 23, 2010
How can I implement xbreadcrumb with levels? When I click appears at the side.
Suzuki ATV
March 1, 2011
If you’re looking for optimizing your JavaScript writing techniques and cutting down on development time, try out Prototype and this blog really helpful for that. Nice Review..
jorin vermeulen
March 3, 2011
Hello,
Is it allowed to use this for commercial projects?
ajaxBlender.com
March 25, 2011
Yes, you can use it in commercial projects without any limitations. Please just add the proper credit and url in the comments. Thanks!
eric
April 24, 2011
all the jsp page need include this
Home
Servers
Desktop Computers
Laptops
Laptops
Dell
HP
Apple
IBM
Apple
MacBook Pro
MacBook Air
MacBook Air
and all the jsp page need include stype??any idea to solve this problem?
Michal Suski
April 27, 2011
Hi, I improved your script so it only collapses breadcrumbs when their total width is greater than breadcrumbs container width. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in adding this improvement to your code.
Padraic
June 16, 2011
can you please add a LICENSE file to the distribution. Without it any corporate entity can’t really make use of this great library. Thanks.
Brett Palmer
June 17, 2011
It seems like if I don’t have a multilevel element it won’t animate. For instance:
Home
test
test
works great but
Home
test
does not animate. Any ideas on what I’m doing wrong?
Anna
July 28, 2011
This is not a “Breadcrumb” generator, it simply creates a menu with drop down functionality. Breadcrumbs are based on which pages the user has clicked on, and creates a “crumb” for each page so the user can go back at any point. Waste of an hour trying to get this working! :(
Andreas
August 30, 2011
Unfortunately completely useless without having a license file. Using a dual license like GPL and MIT would it make much easier to integrate that nice product in some open source projects.
Regards
-Andreas
Joe Privett
September 29, 2011
Is there a way to change the breadcrumbs dynamically? I can update the html content dynamically so that the new breadcrumbs are in place, but not sure how to then re-build them crumbs to reflect the new html. I imagine I have to re-run the _build() function in some way but not sure how. Any help would be appreciated.
Michal
October 20, 2011
On collapsible You have to stop animate on mouseout. You will have better effect without a animation queue. Nice plugin :)
gofur
June 23, 2012
how do you call this jquery on another page?
Saeid
July 23, 2012
You have forgotten to add class=”xbreadcurmbs” to your ul element in markup displayed in step 3!
Erez
September 4, 2012
Hi, great script.
If there a way to disable Ajax?
I know that it defeats the purpose, but I need a crumbtrail that is being pulled from HTML page.
Thanks.
Darren – ajaxBlender
September 6, 2012
Erez,
The script is not using Ajax, it is actually pulling from HTML. If you like, post or email us (support@) the URL and we can look to see if there is a different issue.
Darren