# Breadcrumb

A React component in [Beamline](https://beamline.io/)'s [Navigation](https://beamline.io/components/navigation) category. Live demo: https://beamline.io/components/breadcrumb

Where a page sits and the way back up; long paths keep the first and last two levels and fold the middle into a menu.

## Use it for

- Showing where a page sits in a hierarchy and jumping back up.

## Not for

- Flat apps with one level (use the page title).
- Steps in a flow ([stepper](https://beamline.io/components/stepper)).

## Anatomy

- nav landmark
- links (icon + label)
- separators (chevrons, flipped in RTL)
- fold menu (⋯)
- current page (text)

## States

- short path
- folded path (more than maxItems: first and last two kept, the rest behind ⋯)
- narrow: ancestors give way first to a few letters and an ellipsis (full name in the title); the current page keeps the most

## Keyboard

- Tab through the links and the fold menu

## Motion

Going deeper adds a crumb that grows in; going up lets the dropped crumbs fade where they stood (useFlip).

## Props

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `items` | `{ label, href?, onClick?, icon? }[]` | — |  |
| `maxItems` | `number` | `4` |  |
| `label` | `string` | `"Breadcrumb"` |  |
| `classNames` | `BreadcrumbClassNames; menuClassNames:MenuClassNames` | — |  |
| `style / ref` | `CSSProperties / native Ref` | — | native nav |

## Dependencies

`lucide-react`

## Import

```tsx
import { Breadcrumb } from "@/components/breadcrumb/breadcrumb";
```

## Get it

Breadcrumb is part of Beamline: 190 React components and screens your coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any MCP client) installs into your app through Beamline's MCP server, as a ready-built package or as plain React source you can change. $49 one payment (regular $200), no subscription, a year of updates, one licence for your whole team. [Get Beamline](https://beamline.io/checkout?pack=complete) · [Connect your agent](https://beamline.io/connect)

## More in Navigation

- [Menu bar](https://beamline.io/components/menubar): A desktop-style File / Edit / View bar for editor-like apps; each menu takes the same rows as the dropdown menu, and pointing moves between open menus.
- [Navigation menu](https://beamline.io/components/navigation-menu): A site or docs header whose sections open into one panel that resizes and slides between them; NavigationMenuCard is the standard link row.
- [Pagination](https://beamline.io/components/pagination): Moves through pages of a known length: first, last and the current page's neighbours, with an optional “41–60 of 468”; a phone shows “Page 6 of 24”.
- [Sidebar](https://beamline.io/components/sidebar): The app's main navigation: sections, items with counts and one level of sub-pages, an icon rail with tooltips (⌘B, the trigger or the edge), and a sheet…
- [Stepper](https://beamline.io/components/stepper): Where someone is in a multi-step flow: done steps carry a check, the current one a ring, and the line between marks fills as steps complete.
- [Tabs](https://beamline.io/components/tabs): Switches between panels of one object; one indicator slides to the active tab, counts sit beside labels, and a long row scrolls instead of wrapping.
- [Tree view](https://beamline.io/components/tree-view): Nested folders and records with the full tree keyboard model (arrows, Home/End, *, type to jump), depth guides, counts and animated opening.
- [User menu](https://beamline.io/components/user-menu): The account menu behind the avatar: who is signed in, status, theme, account pages and sign out with progress; a bottom sheet on phones.