Class Breadcrumb

Namespace

Cuemon.AspNetCore.Mvc

Assembly

Cuemon.AspNetCore.Mvc.dll

Represents a breadcrumb that can be used for navigation purposes on a website.

public class Breadcrumb

Inheritance

object

Breadcrumb

Examples

The following example demonstrates how to use to build navigation breadcrumbs for an MVC application.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Cuemon.AspNetCore.Mvc;

namespace MyApp.Examples;

public class BreadcrumbExample
{
    public void Demonstrate()
    {
        // Build a breadcrumb trail for a product detail page
        var breadcrumbs = new List<Breadcrumb>
        {
            new() { Label = "Home", ControllerName = "Home", ActionName = "Index" },
            new() { Label = "Products", ControllerName = "Product", ActionName = "Index" },
            new() { Label = "Electronics", ControllerName = "Product", ActionName = "Category" },
            new() { Label = "Smartphone X", ControllerName = "Product", ActionName = "Details" }
        };

        // Render breadcrumb items
        foreach (var crumb in breadcrumbs)
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"<a href='/{crumb.ControllerName}/{crumb.ActionName}'>{crumb.Label}</a>");
        // Output:
        //   <a href='/Home/Index'>Home</a>
        //   <a href='/Product/Index'>Products</a>
        //   <a href='/Product/Category'>Electronics</a>
        //   <a href='/Product/Details'>Smartphone X</a>

        // The last breadcrumb typically represents the current page (no link)
        var current = breadcrumbs[^1];
        Console.WriteLine($"<span>{current.Label}</span>");
        // Output: <span>Smartphone X</span>

}}
}

Properties

ActionName

Gets or sets the name of the action that this breadcrumb represents.

public string ActionName { get; set; }

Property Value

string

The name of the action that this breadcrumb represents.

ControllerName

Gets or sets the name of the controller this breadcrumb is associated with.

public string ControllerName { get; set; }

Property Value

string

The name of the controller this breadcrumb is associated with.

Label

Gets or sets the label of the breadcrumb.

public string Label { get; set; }

Property Value

string

The label of the breadcrumb.