Confluence Support

Purpose

To disable the hidden (eclipsing) breadcrumbs trails in Confluence navigation.

Ellipsing enabled

Ellipsing disabled

Solution

This is customization to Confluence and as such is considered a 'use at your risk' operation by Atlassian.

Create a backup of <Confluence install directory>/Confluence/breadcrumbs.vm before enacting the following steps.

Open the velocity template found at <Confluence install directory>/Confluence/breadcrumbs.vm in a text editor
Alter the following line line from

...
#foreach( $breadcrumb in $breadcrumbs )
  #if ($ellipsisCrumbs.contains($breadcrumb))
    #set ($breadcrumbHidden = true)

...

to the following

...
#foreach( $breadcrumb in $breadcrumbs )
  #if (false)
    #set ($breadcrumbHidden = true)
...