Breadcrumbs

Source@react-form-builder/components-material-ui

Introduction

The Breadcrumbs component displays a navigation trail for users to track their location within an application. It is commonly used in multi-level navigation structures, file systems, e-commerce categories, or any hierarchical content where users need to understand their current position and navigate back to parent levels. The component follows Material Design guidelines for breadcrumb navigation with clear separators and interactive links.

The Breadcrumbs component is based on Material UI Breadcrumbs. It is included within the following NPM package: @react-form-builder/components-material-ui.

The Breadcrumbs component can be styled and configured to fit specific design and functionality requirements by using various properties that are presented and described below.

Main properties

The following general properties are available within the Main tab:

Name	Type	Description
Separator	ReactNode	Custom separator node (default: '/')
Items	array	Breadcrumb items to display
Max items	number	Maximum number of breadcrumbs to display. When there are more than this number, only the first and last items will be shown, with an ellipsis in between
Items after collapse	number	If maxItems is exceeded, the number of items to show after the ellipsis
Items before collapse	number	If maxItems is exceeded, the number of items to show before the ellipsis

At the bottom of the Main properties menu, you can find additional options:

• Render When: Provides conditional rendering for your component as described in the corresponding chapter.
• HTML attributes: Allows you to provide custom HTML attributes for your form.

Style properties

These are properties that allow to customize the size, color and other style properties of your component:

• For Device: You can provide component's style customization for all devices or specific devices by using this dropdown list. Refer to Adaptive Layout for more details.

• Component > Class Name: Add a class name for your component for the subsequent styling if necessary.

• Wrapper: The options below enable you to tailor the appearance of your component and customize it for a specific device type, as selected in the For Device property:

  Name	Type	Description
  Width	number	Specifies the width for your component
  Height	number	Specifies the height for your component
  Margin top/right/bottom/left	number	Margin values for you component
  Color	string	Allows customizing the text color
  Background color	string	Enables customizing the background color