User:Teryls/Sandbox/BreadCrumb Trails

''' What are Breadcrumb Trails United States Missouri Adair County The above is an example of a breadcrumb trail[1]. You see them on every "locality" page.

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 list on the state page, all you have to do is click the state page link in the breadcrumb trail to get back to the state page with its list of county pages. You could even go back to the country page if you needed. Location of breadcrumb trails on pages They usually appear at the top of the page just below the page title. Here is an example of the placement of a breadcrumb trail after the page title.  Creating breadcrumb trails A breadcrumb trail is really nothing more than internal links strung together separated by an arrow. To ensure consistency throughout the Wiki, the breadcrumb code is set up as a template. We will learn about templates in Intermediate Wikitext.

Here is the wikitext coding for the above "breadcrumb trail" to be placed in an article:

NOTICE all links are internal links. For each link, copy and paste the title of the article before the pipe, then include a title after the pipe you want to be seen by the patrons. Do not include any underscores between words of the NAME of the article. NOTICE link5 should always contain the title of the current page you are on. Big text Catagory:Sandbox