diff --git a/src/_h5ai/client/js/inc/view/items.js b/src/_h5ai/client/js/inc/view/items.js
index a5e44f2d..ecad1aa6 100644
--- a/src/_h5ai/client/js/inc/view/items.js
+++ b/src/_h5ai/client/js/inc/view/items.js
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ modulejs.define('view/items', ['_', '$', 'core/settings', 'core/resource', 'core
 
 	var settings = _.extend({
 			setParentFolderLabels: false,
+			hideParentFolderLinks: false,
 			binaryPrefix: false
 		}, allsettings.view),
 
@@ -112,7 +113,7 @@ modulejs.define('view/items', ['_', '$', 'core/settings', 'core/resource', 'core
 
 			$items.find('.item').remove();
 
-			if (item.parent) {
+			if (item.parent && !settings.hideParentFolderLinks) {
 				$items.append(update(item.parent, true));
 			}
 
diff --git a/src/_h5ai/conf/options.json b/src/_h5ai/conf/options.json
index 90eb4d4f..aed5bf7a 100644
--- a/src/_h5ai/conf/options.json
+++ b/src/_h5ai/conf/options.json
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Options
 		The user selected view mode is also stored local in modern browsers
 		so that it will be persistent.
 	- setParentFolderLabels: set parent folder labels to real folder names
+	- hideParentFolderLinks: hide parent folder links
 	- binaryPrefix: set to true uses 1024B=1KiB when formatting file sizes (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix)
 	- indexFiles: consider folder with those files as non {{pkg.name}} folders
 	- ignore: don't list items matching these regular expressions
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ Options
 	"view": {
 		"modes": ["details", "icons", "grid", "list"],
 		"setParentFolderLabels": true,
+		"hideParentFolderLinks": false,
 		"binaryPrefix": false,
 		"indexFiles": ["index.html", "index.htm", "index.php"],
 		"ignore": ["^\\.", "^_{{pkg.name}}"],