Getting Started with Blazor Breadcrumb Component

29 Nov 20245 minutes to read

This section briefly explains about how to include Blazor Breadcrumb component in your Blazor Server App and Blazor WebAssembly App using Visual Studio.

Prerequisites

Create a new Blazor App in Visual Studio

You can create a Blazor Server App or Blazor WebAssembly App using Visual Studio via Microsoft Templates or the Syncfusion® Blazor Extension.

Install Syncfusion® Blazor Navigations and Themes NuGet in the App

To add Blazor Breadcrumb component in the app, open the NuGet package manager in Visual Studio (Tools → NuGet Package Manager → Manage NuGet Packages for Solution), search and install Syncfusion.Blazor.Navigations and Syncfusion.Blazor.Themes. Alternatively, you can utilize the following package manager command to achieve the same.

Install-Package Syncfusion.Blazor.Navigations -Version 28.1.33
Install-Package Syncfusion.Blazor.Themes -Version 28.1.33

NOTE

Syncfusion® Blazor components are available in nuget.org. Refer to NuGet packages topic for available NuGet packages list with component details.

Register Syncfusion® Blazor Service

Open ~/_Imports.razor file and import the Syncfusion.Blazor and Syncfusion.Blazor.Navigations namespace.

@using Syncfusion.Blazor
@using Syncfusion.Blazor.Navigations

Now, register the Syncfusion® Blazor Service in the ~/Program.cs file of your Blazor Server App or Blazor WebAssembly App.

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Web;
using Syncfusion.Blazor;

var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);

// Add services to the container.
builder.Services.AddRazorPages();
builder.Services.AddServerSideBlazor();
builder.Services.AddSyncfusionBlazor();

var app = builder.Build();
....
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Web;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly.Hosting;
using Syncfusion.Blazor;

var builder = WebAssemblyHostBuilder.CreateDefault(args);
builder.RootComponents.Add<App>("#app");
builder.RootComponents.Add<HeadOutlet>("head::after");

builder.Services.AddScoped(serviceProvider => new HttpClient { BaseAddress = new Uri(builder.HostEnvironment.BaseAddress) });

builder.Services.AddSyncfusionBlazor();
await builder.Build().RunAsync();
....

Add stylesheet and script resources

The theme stylesheet and script can be accessed from NuGet through Static Web Assets. Reference the stylesheet and script in the <head> of the main page as follows:

  • For .NET 6 Blazor Server app, include it in ~/Pages/_Layout.cshtml file.

  • For .NET 7 Blazor Server app, include it in the ~/Pages/_Host.cshtml file.

  • For Blazor WebAssembly app, include it in the ~/index.html file.

<head>
    ....
    <link href="_content/Syncfusion.Blazor.Themes/bootstrap5.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="_content/Syncfusion.Blazor.Core/scripts/syncfusion-blazor.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

NOTE

Check out the Blazor Themes topic to discover various methods (Static Web Assets, CDN, and CRG) for referencing themes in your Blazor application. Also, check out the Adding Script Reference topic to learn different approaches for adding script references in your Blazor application.

Add Syncfusion® Blazor Breadcrumb component

Add the Syncfusion® Blazor Breadcrumb component in the ~/Pages/Index.razor file.

<SfBreadcrumb></SfBreadcrumb>
  • Press F5 to run the application. Then, the Syncfusion® Blazor Breadcrumb component will be rendered in the default web browser.

Blazor Breadcrumb Component

NOTE

The Breadcrumb component will render based on the current URL, when the Breadcrumb items are not specified.

Add items to the Blazor Breadcrumb component

To render Breadcrumb component with items use BreadcrumbItem tag directive as like below code example.

@using Syncfusion.Blazor.Navigations

<SfBreadcrumb>
    <BreadcrumbItems>
        <BreadcrumbItem IconCss="e-icons e-home" Url="https://blazor.syncfusion.com/demos/"/>
        <BreadcrumbItem Text="Components" Url="https://blazor.syncfusion.com/demos/datagrid/overview"/>
        <BreadcrumbItem Text="Navigations" Url="https://blazor.syncfusion.com/demos/menu-bar/default-functionalities"/>
        <BreadcrumbItem Text="Breadcrumb" Url="./breadcrumb/default-functionalities"/>
    </BreadcrumbItems>
</SfBreadcrumb>

NOTE

Place list of BreadcrumbItem within BreadcrumbItems tag directive.

Blazor Breadcrumb Component

Enable or disable navigation

Breadcrumb component enables or disables built-in URL navigation based on the EnableNavigation property. By default, the navigation will be enabled when setting the Url property. To prevent Breadcrumb item navigation, set the EnableNavigation property as false in Breadcrumb.

NOTE

View Sample in GitHub

See also

NOTE

You can also explore our Blazor Breadcrumb example that shows you how to render and configure the breadcrumb.