A breadcrumb trail is a list of web pages, often located at the top of a page, that helps a user orient themselves to the site. Below is an example of what a breadcrumb trail may look like for this page.

Computer Hope - Dictionary - B Definitions - Breadcrumb trail

As shown in the above example, you can trace your tracks of how you may arrive at the breadcrumb trail definition on Computer Hope. You can find a breadcrumb trail like this example at the top of each of our pages.

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