# DITA Best Practices : Using breadcrumbs in oXygen

Created by Todd Stupnik, last modified on Jan 23, 2015

Breadcrumbs are navigational items that appear at the top of the Author view, indicating XML elements nested within the body of a file. A left-hand side stripe paints a vertical thin light blue bar indicating the span of the element found at caret position.

## The breadcrumb in Author view

The last element is also highlighted by a thin light blue bar for easier identification. Clicking one element from the top stripe selects the entire element in the editor view. Selecting a particular element in the breadcrumbs highlights that element in the Author view.

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