KB User's Guide - General Info - How to Hide Topic Breadcrumbs

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You must have full administrative permissions in your space to perform these steps. This means access to the Documents, Settings, and Users tabs.

This document will explain how a KB Group Admin can hide topic breadcrumbs from view on their KB Live Site(s), either across your site or on a single KB document.

Topic breadcrumbs provide a secondary navigation path that helps users understand where a document is located within the topic hierarchy. Displayed above the document title, each breadcrumb links to a search results page showing all documents associated with that topic.

Topic breadcrumbs start with the text "Topics Map" followed child topic of Dpcuments Tab

If needed, these breadcrumbs can be hidden from view.

Hiding topic breadcrumbs for your entire site

  1. In the KB Admin Tools, go to the Settings tab, then click Layout in the left side navigation.

    Layout is the third link in the second link group of the secondary navigation under Settings

  2. Expand the Standard / Subpage Layout panel for your internal and/or external site.

    • If you already have a custom CSS field selected in the Custom CSS dropdown, add your new CSS to the field that corresponds to the one that is selected.

    • If Custom CSS is set to "None", add your new CSS to a blank field and select that field in the dropdown.

    custom css make sure the drop down matches name of the field in which you entered your code

  3. Paste the following CSS into the field you are using:

  4. Click the Update button at the bottom of the page to save your work.

Hiding topic breadcrumbs in a single document

  1. Navigate to the edit screen of the desired KB document. See KB Author Training - Editing an Existing Document for more information on searching for and editing a KB document.

  2. Go to the right side navigation > Advanced section. There you will find a text field called JavaScript/CSS.

    enter code snippet in the JavaScript CSS field

  3. Enter the following:

  4. Set the document to the desired status and click Submit.

See Also


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Doc ID:
112059
Owned by:
Leah S. in KB User's Guide
Created:
2021-06-29
Updated:
2026-09-14
Sites:
KB Process, KB User's Guide
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