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03-21-2012, 11:00 PM
STOP: Before we go any further, I want to make it clear that you need to have a basic understanding of what you're doing. You need to have a basic understanding of CSS in order to make this perfect. I have tried my best to have this use vBulletin's existing stylevars, but you will most likely need to fine-tune it's cosmetic qualities on your own.
http://mauricedestefano.com/images/screenshot.387.png
Some people have been asking for better breadcrumbs. A few months ago, I published a barebone template on how to accomplish such a task. Despite my good efforts, some people needed additional help to get it working. To make matters easier, I took time out today to make the breadcrumbs work with a vBulletin 4 system. It includes basic Microdata.
As previously mentioned above, these will need some CSS work on a non-default style. When these were originally built, it was for my website, not for mass distribution. I have given my best efforts to port it to using vBulletin's stylevars, but it's very, very crude. I have taken some time to add comments to the CSS so you can easily change the values if they don't work right.
If you want to see a live demo, you may visit my site:
https://www.beercandle.com/forum.php
Please note my site is using the original revision. This here is the adapted.
Prerequisite to setting this up: This has only been tested on vBulletin 4.1.11; Create a copy of the Style you want to apply this to. Test it first. Make sure it looks good. :)
> Open Template Group `CSS Templates`
>> Open Template `additional.css`
### ADD ###
.bread_box {
margin: 0;
overflow: hidden;
clear: both;
}
.breadcrumb {
position: relative;
font: 11px Arial,Calibri,Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;
background: {vb:stylevar sidebar_background};
border: {vb:stylevar sidebar_border}; /* this is the border color that's around the whole thing */
-moz-border-radius:{vb:stylevar border_radius};
-webkit-border-radius: {vb:stylevar border_radius};
border-radius: {vb:stylevar border_radius};
overflow: hidden;
}
.breadcrumb .crust {
display: block;
float: left;
position: relative;
}
.breadcrumb .crust:first-child a.crumb {
padding-left: 13px;
-moz-border-radius-topleft:{vb:stylevar border_radius};
-moz-border-radius-bottomleft:{vb:stylevar border_radius};
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: {vb:stylevar border_radius};
-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: {vb:stylevar border_radius};
border-top-left-radius: {vb:stylevar border_radius};
border-bottom-left-radius: {vb:stylevar border_radius};
}
.breadcrumb .crust a.crumb, .breadcrumb .crust b.lastcrumb {
text-decoration: none;
background-color: {vb:stylevar sidebar_background.backgroundColor}; /* this is the background color of the CRUMBS, ie: the links */
padding: 0 10px 0 23px;
border-bottom: {vb:stylevar sidebar_border}; /* this is the same as the border value higher up, this only shows if the last crumb causes it to overflow */
margin-bottom: -1px;
outline: 0 none;
-moz-outline-style: 0 none;
display: block;
line-height: 22px;
_border-bottom: none;
color:{vb:stylevar link_color}; /* this is the color of the links in the crumbs */
text-decoration:{vb:stylevar link_textDecoration};
}
.breadcrumb .crust b.lastcrumb {
background: transparent none;
color: {vb:stylevar footer_time_color}; /* this is the color of the last crumb, ie: the final destination */
font-weight: bold;
}
.breadcrumb .crust a.crumb, .breadcrumb .crust b.lastcrumb {
line-height: 22px;
}
.breadcrumb .crust .arrow {
border: 12px solid transparent;
border-right: 1px none black;
border-left: {vb:stylevar sidebar_border}; /* this is the _background_ color of the "arrow" */
border-left-width: 12px !important;
border-left-style: solid !important;
display: block;
position: absolute;
right: -12px;
top: -1px;
z-index: 50;
width: 0px;
height: 0px;
}
.breadcrumb .crust .arrow span {
border: 12px solid transparent;
border-right: 1px none black;
border-left-color: {vb:stylevar sidebar_background.backgroundColor}; /* this is the border color of the "arrow" */
display: block;
position: absolute;
left: -13px;
top: -12px;
z-index: 51;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
text-indent: 9999px;
width: 0px;
height: 0px;
}
.breadcrumb .refresh:hover { background-position: 0px -16px; }
.breadcrumb .crust:last-child a.crumb { font-weight: bold; }
.breadcrumb .crust:hover a.crumb {
background-color:{vb:stylevar blocksubhead_background.backgroundColor}; /* this is the background color of the crumb when it's hovered */
color:{vb:stylevar linkhover_color}; /* likewise, this is the color of the crumb's link when hovered */
text-decoration:{vb:stylevar linkhover_textDecoration};
}
.breadcrumb .crust:hover .arrow span {
border-left-color:{vb:stylevar blocksubhead_background.backgroundColor}; /* this is the color of the "arrow" when hovered. It should be identical to the `.breadcrumb .crust:hover a.crumb` background value */
}
> Open Template Group `Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates`
>> Open Template `navbar`
### FIND ###
<div id="breadcrumb" class="breadcrumb">
<ul class="floatcontainer">
<li class="navbithome"><a href="index.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}" accesskey="1"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/navbit-home.png" alt="{vb:rawphrase home}" /></a></li>
{vb:raw navbits.breadcrumb}
{vb:raw navbits.lastelement}
</ul>
<hr />
</div>
### REPLACE WITH ###
<div class="bread_box">
<nav>
<fieldset class="breadcrumb">
<span class="crumbs">
<vb:if condition="$vboptions['hometitle']">
<span class="crust" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
<a href="{vb:raw vboptions.homeurl}" class="crumb" rel="up" itemprop="url" alt="{vb:rawphrase home}">
<span itemprop="title">{vb:raw vboptions.hometitle}</span>
</a>
<span class="arrow">
<span>></span>
</span>
</span>
</vb:if>
{vb:raw navbits.breadcrumb}
{vb:raw navbits.lastelement}
</span>
</fieldset>
</nav>
</div>
>> Open template `navbar_link`
### REPLACE _EVERYTHING_ WITH ###
<vb:if condition="$show['breadcrumb']">
<span class="crust" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
<a href="{vb:raw nav_url}" class="crumb" rel="up" itemprop="url">
<span itemprop="title">{vb:raw nav_title}</span>
</a>
<span class="arrow">
<span>></span>
</span>
</span>
<vb:else />
<span class="crust" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
<b class="lastcrumb">
<span itemprop="title">{vb:raw nav_title}</span>
</b>
</span>
</vb:if>
http://mauricedestefano.com/images/screenshot.387.png
Some people have been asking for better breadcrumbs. A few months ago, I published a barebone template on how to accomplish such a task. Despite my good efforts, some people needed additional help to get it working. To make matters easier, I took time out today to make the breadcrumbs work with a vBulletin 4 system. It includes basic Microdata.
As previously mentioned above, these will need some CSS work on a non-default style. When these were originally built, it was for my website, not for mass distribution. I have given my best efforts to port it to using vBulletin's stylevars, but it's very, very crude. I have taken some time to add comments to the CSS so you can easily change the values if they don't work right.
If you want to see a live demo, you may visit my site:
https://www.beercandle.com/forum.php
Please note my site is using the original revision. This here is the adapted.
Prerequisite to setting this up: This has only been tested on vBulletin 4.1.11; Create a copy of the Style you want to apply this to. Test it first. Make sure it looks good. :)
> Open Template Group `CSS Templates`
>> Open Template `additional.css`
### ADD ###
.bread_box {
margin: 0;
overflow: hidden;
clear: both;
}
.breadcrumb {
position: relative;
font: 11px Arial,Calibri,Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;
background: {vb:stylevar sidebar_background};
border: {vb:stylevar sidebar_border}; /* this is the border color that's around the whole thing */
-moz-border-radius:{vb:stylevar border_radius};
-webkit-border-radius: {vb:stylevar border_radius};
border-radius: {vb:stylevar border_radius};
overflow: hidden;
}
.breadcrumb .crust {
display: block;
float: left;
position: relative;
}
.breadcrumb .crust:first-child a.crumb {
padding-left: 13px;
-moz-border-radius-topleft:{vb:stylevar border_radius};
-moz-border-radius-bottomleft:{vb:stylevar border_radius};
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: {vb:stylevar border_radius};
-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: {vb:stylevar border_radius};
border-top-left-radius: {vb:stylevar border_radius};
border-bottom-left-radius: {vb:stylevar border_radius};
}
.breadcrumb .crust a.crumb, .breadcrumb .crust b.lastcrumb {
text-decoration: none;
background-color: {vb:stylevar sidebar_background.backgroundColor}; /* this is the background color of the CRUMBS, ie: the links */
padding: 0 10px 0 23px;
border-bottom: {vb:stylevar sidebar_border}; /* this is the same as the border value higher up, this only shows if the last crumb causes it to overflow */
margin-bottom: -1px;
outline: 0 none;
-moz-outline-style: 0 none;
display: block;
line-height: 22px;
_border-bottom: none;
color:{vb:stylevar link_color}; /* this is the color of the links in the crumbs */
text-decoration:{vb:stylevar link_textDecoration};
}
.breadcrumb .crust b.lastcrumb {
background: transparent none;
color: {vb:stylevar footer_time_color}; /* this is the color of the last crumb, ie: the final destination */
font-weight: bold;
}
.breadcrumb .crust a.crumb, .breadcrumb .crust b.lastcrumb {
line-height: 22px;
}
.breadcrumb .crust .arrow {
border: 12px solid transparent;
border-right: 1px none black;
border-left: {vb:stylevar sidebar_border}; /* this is the _background_ color of the "arrow" */
border-left-width: 12px !important;
border-left-style: solid !important;
display: block;
position: absolute;
right: -12px;
top: -1px;
z-index: 50;
width: 0px;
height: 0px;
}
.breadcrumb .crust .arrow span {
border: 12px solid transparent;
border-right: 1px none black;
border-left-color: {vb:stylevar sidebar_background.backgroundColor}; /* this is the border color of the "arrow" */
display: block;
position: absolute;
left: -13px;
top: -12px;
z-index: 51;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
text-indent: 9999px;
width: 0px;
height: 0px;
}
.breadcrumb .refresh:hover { background-position: 0px -16px; }
.breadcrumb .crust:last-child a.crumb { font-weight: bold; }
.breadcrumb .crust:hover a.crumb {
background-color:{vb:stylevar blocksubhead_background.backgroundColor}; /* this is the background color of the crumb when it's hovered */
color:{vb:stylevar linkhover_color}; /* likewise, this is the color of the crumb's link when hovered */
text-decoration:{vb:stylevar linkhover_textDecoration};
}
.breadcrumb .crust:hover .arrow span {
border-left-color:{vb:stylevar blocksubhead_background.backgroundColor}; /* this is the color of the "arrow" when hovered. It should be identical to the `.breadcrumb .crust:hover a.crumb` background value */
}
> Open Template Group `Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates`
>> Open Template `navbar`
### FIND ###
<div id="breadcrumb" class="breadcrumb">
<ul class="floatcontainer">
<li class="navbithome"><a href="index.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}" accesskey="1"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/navbit-home.png" alt="{vb:rawphrase home}" /></a></li>
{vb:raw navbits.breadcrumb}
{vb:raw navbits.lastelement}
</ul>
<hr />
</div>
### REPLACE WITH ###
<div class="bread_box">
<nav>
<fieldset class="breadcrumb">
<span class="crumbs">
<vb:if condition="$vboptions['hometitle']">
<span class="crust" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
<a href="{vb:raw vboptions.homeurl}" class="crumb" rel="up" itemprop="url" alt="{vb:rawphrase home}">
<span itemprop="title">{vb:raw vboptions.hometitle}</span>
</a>
<span class="arrow">
<span>></span>
</span>
</span>
</vb:if>
{vb:raw navbits.breadcrumb}
{vb:raw navbits.lastelement}
</span>
</fieldset>
</nav>
</div>
>> Open template `navbar_link`
### REPLACE _EVERYTHING_ WITH ###
<vb:if condition="$show['breadcrumb']">
<span class="crust" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
<a href="{vb:raw nav_url}" class="crumb" rel="up" itemprop="url">
<span itemprop="title">{vb:raw nav_title}</span>
</a>
<span class="arrow">
<span>></span>
</span>
</span>
<vb:else />
<span class="crust" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
<b class="lastcrumb">
<span itemprop="title">{vb:raw nav_title}</span>
</b>
</span>
</vb:if>