Description

Breadcrumbs should be used as a secondary navigational aid. They indicate the current page’s location within a hierarchy and help the user to understand where they are in relation to the rest of that hierarchy.

Breadcrumbs enable users to move quickly to a parent-level page.

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Usage & Behavior

General guidelines

Breadcrumbs are very effective in products that have a large amount of content organized in a hierarchy of more than two levels.

Breadcrumbs are always treated as secondary and should never entirely replace the primary navigation.

Structure

The breadcrumbs component should include:

• The page hierarchy (path) in regular text, with > as a divider between levels.

• The user’s current page at the end of the row in plain text.

• The other (parent) pages in the hierarchy as Text Links.

• When a breadcrumb line exceeds its container’s width, truncation should occur at the 2nd level of the breadcrumb. The truncation will apply to the next levels as needed, while keeping the first and last levels non-truncated.

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Placement and Positioning

• The breadcrumb should be positioned at the top of the page, below the VerinTop, and above the main header.

• The breadcrumb can only expand across one row of text.

States

Interaction

• Clicking a link in the breadcrumb will navigate to higher level pages within that hierarchy. The new page will be opened in the same tab.

Best practices

Use:

• as secondary navigation.

• when there are two or more linear levels to a page hierarchy.

Don’t use:

• to replace the primary navigation.

• on pages with a flat structure (one level).

• to show navigation history. Breadcrumbs should only represent page hierarchy.

Accessibility Compliance

Unless otherwise specified, see our general compliance information in Fundamentals - Accessibility.

Focus management

Responsive design

Verint products should support all devices down to the common tablet size (960px width). For general guidelines, see Fundamentals - Responsive design.

• The breadcrumbs placement and positioning is fixed, regardless of screen width or height.

• Where a breadcrumb line exceeds the container width:

  • truncation will apply to all central items, while keeping the first, last, and second-last levels non-truncated.

  • truncation should apply to all of the central items equally, so each has the same available space.

  • the spacing between each level should remain static.

  • each level should have a minimum width of 2 characters.

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