What font size should I use for navigational breadcrumbs? [closed]

1. What size font should breadcrumbs be?
2. Should breadcrumbs be in NAV?
3. How do you make navigation breadcrumbs?
4. How do you deal with long breadcrumbs?

What size font should breadcrumbs be?

Use a slightly smaller font size for the breadcrumb than you do for the rest of the text on your site. Verdana 8 points is perfect.

Should breadcrumbs be in NAV?

Because Breadcrumbs work as a secondary navigation aid, it should be placed above the content. The Nielsen Norman group conducted user tests and found that users expect breadcrumbs at the top of the page. A good placement for breadcrumbs is below the main navigation bar and above the page title.

How do you make navigation breadcrumbs?

This method allows to exactly customize how the breadcrumbs would look like. Step 1: Create an HTML list of the navigation links. Step 2: Set the CSS display: inline in order to show the list in the same line. Step 3: Add a separator after every list element.

How do you deal with long breadcrumbs?

Don't clutter the page with too many elements

Sure, it won't be good to overload the page, especially at the secondary navigation level. In the case of the too long breadcrumb trail, some of them in the middle can be hidden behind the ellipsis. But never hide the first and the last element so as no to break the logic.