Generally, breadcrumbs trails are made with the following markup:
<div id="breadcrumbs"> <a href="#">Home</a> > <-- Other links --> Current section </div>
Wrong, totally wrong and completely non-semantic, because it doesn't resemble the tree hierarchy of the directories. Here's a better approach:
<ul id="breadcrumbs">
<li><a href="#">Home</a>
<ul>
<li><! -- Another link -->
<ul>
<li><strong>Current section</strong></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
That's semantic, instead and here's how we can stylize it with CSS:
#breadcrumbs {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
}
#breadcrumbs li, #breadcrumbs ul {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
display: inline;
}
#breadcrumbs li a {
padding-right: 0.4em;
margin-right: 0.3em;
background: url("img/arrow-right.gif") no-repeat 100% 0;
}
That's it. Hope that helps!