Creating a Progress Bar

As website developers, we often want to display progress to our users in a visual way. One way to do this is by creating a progress bar. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to create a basic progress bar using HTML and CSS.

HTML Structure

First, let’s start by setting up the HTML structure for our progress bar. We’ll use two div elements to create the progress bar container and the progress itself.

<div class="progress-bar">
  <div class="progress"></div>
</div>

We’ve added a class name to each element to make it easier to style them with CSS later on.

The outer div with class progress-bar serves as the container for the progress bar, while the inner div with class progress represents the actual progress.

Styling the Progress Bar

Now that we have the HTML structure set up, we can move on to styling the progress bar with CSS.

.progress-bar {
  width: 100%;
  height: 20px;
  background-color: #ddd;
  border-radius: 10px;
}

.progress {
  height: 100%;
  background-color: #4CAF50;
  border-radius: 10px;
  width: 50%;
}

We’ve set the width of the progress-bar to 100% to make it fill up the entire container. We’ve also set the height to 20px and added a gray background-color of #ddd. The border-radius of 10px gives the progress bar rounded edges.

For the progress element, we’ve set the height to 100% so that it fills up the entire progress-bar. We’ve given it a green background-color of #4CAF50 to represent the progress. The border-radius of 10px gives the progress bar rounded edges, just like the progress-bar.

Finally, we’ve set the width of the progress element to 50%. This means that the progress bar will be filled up to 50% of its width, representing 50% progress. You can adjust this value to reflect the progress percentage you want to display.

Conclusion

That’s it! With just a few lines of HTML and CSS, you can create a basic progress bar to display progress to your users. Of course, you can customize the design and layout of the progress bar to match your website’s style.