[Breadcrumb] What should the visual break between items be called?

[chrisdholt]

The visual break between breadcrumb items is referred to across libraries as either a divider or a separator. There is no clear consensus among libraries, though the spec submitted (#165) does refer to this as "divider". For breaks within a menu, the W3C uses the word separator. This issue is intended to track and land on the best semantic representation for this part given the lack of consensus and similar concepts described in the W3C described as "separator".

[una]

Currently these are usually pseudo elements that are a part of a breadcrumb "element". The "seperator" lives within the breadcrumb.

MDN:

Etsy:

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Fashionphile:

I find these very similar to ::marker for list items. I feel these could be a pseudo element that also applies to breadcrumb in a similar way that it applies to (and is styled on) li, instead of its own specified part.

[chrisdholt]

I very much agree with both points here - the name of "separator" and treating this more as a pseudo element. Currently the name in the spec I believe is "divider" and I believe the spec also treats the separator as a slotted element by default in the anatomy. It would be great to get resolution on the above from others so we can update accordingly.

[gregwhitworth]

This was discussed in the last meeting and it was agreed upon that it should be treated as ::marker rather than that of another element entirely.

Resolved: Add a marker part to the breadcrumb child

[github-actions]

There hasn't been any discussion on this issue for a while, so we're marking it as stale. If you choose to kick off the discussion again, we'll remove the 'stale' label.