Breadcrumbs or breadcrumb trail is a navigation aid used in user interfaces. It allows users to keep track of their locations within programs or documents. The term comes from the trail of breadcrumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in the popular fairytale. They are simply hyperlinks that lead sequentially to the current page. Breadcrumbs are an effective part of user experience studies. They help user to navigate easily to any of the pages in the trail.
1. Smart Breadcrumb plugin
Smart Breadcrumb plugin follows the centralized dynamic approach and creates XML driven breadcrumb navigation with the help of jQuery. No HTML markups, no maintenance hassles, simply provide an XML file containing your site structure, reference necessary scripts and CSS files. And this is all Smart Breadcrumb requires to create breadcrumb navigation for your website.
Path selector is a breadcrumb bar jquery plugin for selection of hierarchic options (similar to address bar of the windows explorer in Vista and Windows 7).
This plugin will provide a fully functional breadcrumb with minimal effort. It allows you to specify your breadcrumbs by simply specifying a CSS selector for selecting an element on the current page to represent the breadcrumb name. It manages the saving of crumb information across page views and in many circumstances only requires adding a single taglib entry to your layout(s).
xBreadcrumbs (Extended Breadcrumbs) is a jQuery plug-in to create categorized breadcrumbs for your site. This may be useful if your website has a deep structure and you want allow your visitors to quickly navigate through one section of the site to another. xBreadcrumbs works with unordered lists (UL/LI) which would make your breadcrumbs fully optimized for search engines. An SEO freindly breadcrumb has many benefits.
JCrumb is a JQuery plugin for instantly adding breadcrumbs to any webpage without the need to worry about sitemaps, or server side languages. Just add the plugin to every page you want breadcrumbs on initialize and your done. Can be also be styled with JQuery UI.
This collapsible breadcrumb was developed to deal with deeply nested, verbosely named pages. Rather than limit the amount of elements shown on the sever side, we decided to go with a client side solution for usability and SEO reasons. It also turned out nice to look at and fun to play with.
An attractive and simple to use breadcrumb plugin for use with jQuery.