BreadCrumb Navigation in SharePoint 2013

In this blog, I will talk about the changes to be done in Master Page to enable the BreadCrumb Navigation.

In SharePoint 2010, Breadcrumb is used to navigate among the various SharePoint Pages. For no reason, this bread crumb feature is disabled in SharePoint 2013.

There are two ways of activating it in SharePoint 2013:

1. Through Master Page
2. Enable it through all pages through code.

Open the Master Page in SharePoint designer and look out for the following piece of code.

<div class="ms-breadcrumb-dropdownBox" style="display:none;">
<SharePoint:AjaxDelta id="DeltaBreadcrumbDropdown" runat="server">
<SharePoint:PopoutMenu Visible="false" runat="server">

Code after changes

<div class="ms-breadcrumb-dropdownBox">
<SharePoint:AjaxDelta id="DeltaBreadcrumbDropdown" runat="server">
<SharePoint:PopoutMenu Visible="false" runat="server">

You can remove the display:none attribute in the master page. That's it. BreadCrumb Navigation is back in SharePoint 2013

Happy SharePointing :-)