Help:Wiki University Wikitext--Breadcrumb Trails

What are Breadcrumb Trails
United States Missouri   Adair County  The above is an example of a breadcrumb trail. You see them on every county page for the United States.

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 or the SEO. We will talk about SEOs in an upcoming lesson. Here is an example of the placement of a breadcrumb trail after the SEO. 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 or something similar. Here is the coding for the above "breadcrumb trail" links:  United States Missouri  Adair County
 * NOTICE the little green arrows are images, but you can use the > signs instead.
 * NOTICE the apostrophes on the links. For consistency, we normally put italics around all the internal links, EXCEPT for the page we are on.  It will be in black font anyway.

Try these out


 Exercises Check your answers
 * Take these three pages in FamilySearch Wiki and link them together with a breadcrumb trail:
 * United States
 * California
 * Contra Costa 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