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breadcrumbs tag

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This function is deprecated!
Use now: {cms_breadcrumbs}

Open anchor to this point in the page Purpose

Prints a breadcrumb trail. Breadcrumbs are a navigational technique displaying all visited pages leading from the home page to the currently viewed page.

Open anchor to this point in the page How to use?

Just insert the tag into your template/page like:

  1. {breadcrumbs}

Open anchor to this point in the page Available parameters

  • delimiter - Text to seperate entries in the list (default ">>").
  • initial - 1/0 If set to 1 start the breadcrumbs with a delimiter (default 0).
  • root - Page alias of a page you want to always appear as the first page in the list. Can be used to make a page (e.g. the front page) appear to be the root of everything even though it is not.
  • root_url - Override the URL of the root page. Useful for making link be to '/' instead of '/home/'. This requires that the root page be set as the default page.
  • classid - The CSS class for the non current page names, i.e. the first n-1 pages in the list. If the name is a link it is added to the <a href> tags, otherwise it is added to the <span> tags.
  • currentclassid - The CSS class for the <span> tag surrounding the current page name.
  • starttext - Text to append to the front of the breadcrumbs list, something like "You are here".
  • assign - Assign the results to the named smarty variable.

Open anchor to this point in the page Syntax examples

  1. {breadcrumbs delimiter='»' initial='1'}