Title: Breadcrumb html symantics
Last modified: January 31, 2022

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# Breadcrumb html symantics

 *  Resolved [mikomie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikomie/)
 * (@mikomie)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/breadcrumb-html-symantics/)
 * Hi
    I’m having trouble fixing my breadcrumbs. I’m using elementor and the Yoast
   SEO plugin but the html generated by Yoast doesn’t seem right.
 * I’m getting this as an output :
 * `<p id="breadcrumbs"><span><span><a href="url/">Home</a> <span><a href="url">
   Planten</a> <span><a href="url">Eetbare planten</a> <span class="breadcrumb_last"
   aria-current="page">Grote Weegbree</span></span></span></span></span></p>`
 * while i was expecting something more like this:
 * `<p id="breadcrumbs"><a href="url/"><span>Home</span></a><a href="url"><span>
   Planten</span></a> <a href="url"><span>Eetbare planten</span></a> <span class
   ="breadcrumb_last" aria-current="page"><span>Grote Weegbree</span></span></p>`
 * or even better:
 * `<ol class="breadcrumb" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/BreadcrumbList"
   ><li class="breadcrumb-home" itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope="" itemtype
   ="http://schema.org/ListItem"><a itemprop="item" href="/"><span itemprop="name"
   >Home</span><meta itemprop="position" content="1"></a></li><li class="breadcrumb-
   item" itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem"
   ><a href="breadcrumbitem" itemprop="item"> <span itemprop="name">breadcrumbitem
   </span><meta itemprop="position" content="2"></a></li><li class="breadcrumb-item
   active" itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem"
   ><a href="activeitem" itemprop="item"> <span itemprop="name">activeitem</span
   ><meta itemprop="position" content="3"></a></li></ol>`
 * I’ve tried figuring the code out but i don’t know php.
 * Thanks
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 *  Plugin Support [Michael Tiña](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikes41720/)
 * (@mikes41720)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/breadcrumb-html-symantics/#post-15327115)
 * Hi [@mikomie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikomie/)
 * If you’ve [implemented the Yoast SEO breadcrumbs](https://yoast.com/help/implement-wordpress-seo-breadcrumbs/),
   it should also output the following schema.org structured data (and not via itemprop)
   related to the breadcrumbs in a graph – [https://developer.yoast.com/features/schema/pieces/breadcrumb/](https://developer.yoast.com/features/schema/pieces/breadcrumb/)
 * It doesn’t look like that structured data you’ve referenced is being generated
   by the Yoast SEO plugin’s breadcrumb schema output.
 *  [devnihil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devnihil/)
 * (@devnihil)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/breadcrumb-html-symantics/#post-15364412)
 * We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you
   require any further assistance please create a new issue.

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