Tailwind CSS Breadcrumbs - React

Use our Tailwind CSS Breadcrumbs component to simply create beautiful Breadcrumbs for your pages with Material Tailwind.

Breadcrumbs are website links that allow users to track where they are on a website and how far they are from the homepage. They are highly important elements for your search engine optimisation (SEO) and user experience.

See below our versatile Breadcrumbs component example that you can use in your Tailwind CSS and React project.

import { Breadcrumbs } from "@material-tailwind/react";
 
export function BreadcrumbsDefault() {
  return (
    <Breadcrumbs>
      <a href="#" className="opacity-60">
        Docs
      </a>
      <a href="#" className="opacity-60">
        Components
      </a>
      <a href="#">Breadcrumbs</a>
    </Breadcrumbs>
  );
}

Breadcrumbs With Icon

You can add any type of icon for the Breadcrumbs component as easy as using icon in html.

import { Breadcrumbs } from "@material-tailwind/react";
 
export function BreadcrumbsWithIcon() {
  return (
    <Breadcrumbs>
      <a href="#" className="opacity-60">
        <svg
          xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
          className="h-4 w-4"
          viewBox="0 0 20 20"
          fill="currentColor"
        >
          <path d="M10.707 2.293a1 1 0 00-1.414 0l-7 7a1 1 0 001.414 1.414L4 10.414V17a1 1 0 001 1h2a1 1 0 001-1v-2a1 1 0 011-1h2a1 1 0 011 1v2a1 1 0 001 1h2a1 1 0 001-1v-6.586l.293.293a1 1 0 001.414-1.414l-7-7z" />
        </svg>
      </a>
      <a href="#" className="opacity-60">
        <span>Components</span>
      </a>
      <a href="#">Breadcrumbs</a>
    </Breadcrumbs>
  );
}

Block Level Breadcrumbs

A Breadcrumbs could be a block level component as well that get's all the available space in a row. You can render a Breadcrumbs as a block level element using the fullWidth prop.

import { Breadcrumbs } from "@material-tailwind/react";
 
export function BlockLevelBreadcrumbs() {
  return (
    <Breadcrumbs fullWidth>
      <a href="#" className="opacity-60">
        Docs
      </a>
      <a href="#" className="opacity-60">
        Components
      </a>
      <a href="#">Breadcrumbs</a>
    </Breadcrumbs>
  );
}

Breadcrumbs Custom Separator

You can modify the Breadcrumbs separators by using the Separator prop.

import { Breadcrumbs } from "@material-tailwind/react";
 
export function BreadcrumbsCustomSeparator() {
  return (
    <Breadcrumbs separator="-">
      <a href="#" className="opacity-60">
        Docs
      </a>
      <a href="#" className="opacity-60">
        Components
      </a>
      <a href="#">Breadcrumbs</a>
    </Breadcrumbs>
  );
}

Breadcrumbs Custom Styles

You can use the className prop to add custom styles to the Breadcrumbs component.

import { Breadcrumbs } from "@material-tailwind/react";
import { ArrowLongRightIcon } from "@heroicons/react/24/outline";
 
export function BreadcrumbsCustomStyles() {
  return (
    <Breadcrumbs
      separator={
        <ArrowLongRightIcon className="h-4 w-4 text-white" strokeWidth={2.5} />
      }
      className="rounded-full border border-white bg-gradient-to-tr from-gray-900 to-gray-800 p-1"
    >
      <a
        href="#"
        className="rounded-full bg-white px-3 py-1 font-medium text-gray-900"
      >
        Docs
      </a>
      <a
        href="#"
        className="rounded-full bg-white px-3 py-1 font-medium text-gray-900"
      >
        Components
      </a>
      <a
        href="#"
        className="rounded-full bg-white px-3 py-1 font-medium text-gray-900"
      >
        Breadcrumbs
      </a>
    </Breadcrumbs>
  );
}

Breadcrumbs Props

The following props are available for breadcrumbs component. These are the custom props that we've added for the breadcrumbs component and you can use all the other native props as well.

Attribute	Type	Description	Default
`separator`	`node`	Change breadcrumbs separator between it's elements	`/`
`fullWidth`	`boolean`	Change breadcrumbs to a block level element	`false`
`className`	`string`	Add custom className for breadcrumbs	`''`
`children`	`node`	Add content for breadcrumbs	No default value it's a required prop.

For TypeScript Only

import type { BreadcrumbsProps } from "@material-tailwind/react";

Breadcrumbs Theme

Learn how to customize the theme and styles for breadcrumbs component, the theme object for breadcrumbs component has two main objects:

A. The defaultProps object for setting up the default value for props of breadcrumbs component.
B. The styles object for customizing the theme and styles of breadcrumbs component.

You can customize the theme and styles of breadcrumbs component by adding Tailwind CSS classes as key paired values for objects.

Breadcrumbs Theme Object Type

interface BreadcrumbsStyleTypes {
  defaultProps: {
    separator: node;
    fullWidth: boolean;
    className: string;
  };
  styles: {
    base: {
      root: {
        initial: object;
        fullWidth: object;
      };
      list: object;
      item: {
        initial: object;
        disabled: object;
      };
      separator: object;
    };
  };
}

For TypeScript Only

import type { BreadcrumbsStyleTypes } from "@material-tailwind/react";

Breadcrumbs Theme Customization

const theme = {
  breadcrumbs: {
    defaultProps: {
      className: "",
      fullWidth: false,
      separator: "/",
    },
    styles: {
      base: {
        root: {
          initial: {
            width: "w-max",
          },
          fullWidth: { display: "block", width: "w-full" },
        },
        list: {
          display: "flex",
          flexWrap: "flex-wrap",
          alignItems: "items-center",
          width: "w-full",
          bg: "bg-blue-gray-50",
          bgOpacity: "bg-opacity-60",
          py: "py-2",
          px: "px-4",
          borderRadius: "rounded-md",
        },
        item: {
          initial: {
            display: "flex",
            alignItems: "items-center",
            color: "text-blue-gray-900",
            fontSmoothing: "antialiased",
            fontFamily: "font-sans",
            fontSize: "text-sm",
            fontWeight: "font-normal",
            lineHeight: "leading-normal",
            cursor: "cursor-pointer",
            transition: "transition-colors duration-300",
            hover: "hover:text-light-blue-500",
          },
          disabled: {
            pointerEvents: "pointer-events-none",
          },
        },
        separator: {
          color: "text-blue-gray-500",
          fontSize: "text-sm",
          fontSmoothing: "antialiased",
          fontFamily: "font-sans",
          fontWeight: "font-normal",
          lineHeight: "leading-normal",
          px: "mx-2",
          pointerEvents: "pointer-events-none",
          userSelcet: "select-none",
        },
      },
    },
  },
};

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