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The last version of Internet Explorer, version 11, was released on October 17, 2013. This is a very long time ago when taking into account the rapid development of web technologies. These days it is often difficult and time consuming to get modern technologies to work well in this old browser. More and more frameworks are dropping support, and even Microsoft themselves has announced that they will fully drop support for IE in their own services in 2021.

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Breadcrumb

A breadcrumb is a secondary navigation showing the website hierarchy.

Breadcrumb

Guidelines

Short description

We use breadcrumbs to display site hierarchy (rather than navigation path) and to increase findability of parent pages.

Breadcrumbs help users navigate upward in the hierarchy and typically help with back-movement also. They also help with context when navigation is otherwise out of sight (for example in a mobile view).

Breadcrumbs have been proven to reduce bounce rates for search-users, when they are able to quickly find related pages.

When and how to use it

Use for sites/applications that have a substantial amount of pages present deeper down in site structures.

Behaviour

Desktop

The full path may not take up more than one row in the layout. If the path is too long the path is truncated after the root element (i.e. Home ... > Loans > Home > Interest ).

Mobile

For mobile views we only display the link to the parent page, as the full path tends to take too much space.

Desktop

Desktop

Mobile

Mobile

 

Writing

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Accessibility

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Specification

  • Details: Specification in Figma
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