Help:Wiki University Wikitext--Breadcrumb Trails

What are Breadcrumb Trails
United States Missouri  Adair County This is an example of a breadcrumb trail.

What do we use breadcrumb trails for?
We use "breadcrumb trails" to get us back to the main article we left to get to the page we are now on. In this case we came from a country page, to a state page, then to a county page. If you decided that you were not on the right county page and wanted to go back to the county page, you would have to enter the county name in the search box and select from list the brower selected. Rather than having to go through all that effort, if we have a breadcrumb trail on the county page, for example, all we would have to is click the state page to get back to the list of county pages to get to the want we actually wanted. We could even go back to the country page if we needed.

Location of breadcrumb trails on pages
They usually appear at the top of the page and often times just below the SEO. We will talk about SEOs in an upcoming lesson. Here is an example of a breadcrumb trail.

Creating breadcrumb trails
A breadcrumb trail is really nothing more than internal links strung together separated by an arrow or something similar that would lead you to another page. Here is the coding for the "breadcrumb trail" link: United States > Missouri > Adair County >


 * NOTICE the little green arrows have been removed and substituted with > signs. The little green arrows [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] are images, but you can use the > signs instead.


 * NOTICE the is actually a template that automatically places the name of the page you are on in the place where this template appears.
 * More on templates in the Advanced section of these chapters.

Try these out


 Exercises Check your answers
 * Take these four pages in FamilySearch Wiki and link them together with a breadcrumb trail:
 * United States
 * New York
 * New York City
 * Bronx County
 * Use a > as the pointer to the next page.

 Quick Quiz
 * Breadcrumb trails are usually placed at the bottom of the page.
 * A. True
 * B. False


 * Breadcrumb trails are external links placed in order of size.
 * A. True
 * B. False


 * Breadcrumb trails are not to be used to go back to preceding pages that you came from.
 * A. True
 * B. False

Check your answers