1380657 - Missing Breadcrumb

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Design, enhancement)

Description

[Craig Francis]

What did you do?
================
1. Logged in to see the Beta version of MDN
2. Went to...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/file

What happened?
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The breadcrumb navigation at the top of the page is hidden.

What should have happened?
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It should be shown.

Is there anything else we should know?
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It's related to this bit of CSS:

  .crumbs li {
    margin-right: 10px;
    display: none;
  }

Comment 1

[Craig Francis]

Attachment: Screenshot of the hidden breadcrumb menu

Comment 2

[Stephanie Hobson [:shobson]]

Hi Craig,

This is an intentional design choice. Our analytics show only a very small portion of our users interact with the breadcrumbs so we are removing them to give the article content a greater focus. The HTML for the breadcrumbs will be updated once the design is out of beta. At the moment we are relying on the CSS to handle the differences between the production and beta versions.

I'm sorry you're in the small minority of users effected by this change. You can access the same content using the single link to the parent article (and that article will include a link to its parent article and so on).

Thanks for using MDN.

Comment 3

[Craig Francis]

When you say analytics, I assume you mean clicking on the links... as I don't think you can count how many people simply look at them to see where they are on the website (the left hand nav, with "see also" links, does not show the site structure, but rather some links that might be related to this page).

And while I take your point that you are able to click on the "parent" link more than once, that floating link is not obvious that it takes you to a parent page (i.e. "< <input>" on a page about <input type="file"> is not screaming out to me what it does).

Nor does it say what parent pages are available (e.g. I have no idea it will eventually take me back to the main "HTML element reference" page, 2 levels up).

If it's just me then fine, but I did use the breadcrumbs quite often (as in, I noticed they were missing as soon as I saw the new design, hence the bug report).