Another element to actually fill that space (the bar itself).

One element to create a gap or space that will be filled (you might call it the ‘track’ or ‘container’).

In its simplest form, a progress bar just needs two elements: The quickest and easiest CSS progress bar

So let’s talk about a few ways you can create a progress bar in CSS. Now, if Stark can do that in a cave (with a box of scraps) – then you my friend, with the full power of CSS at your disposal, have no excuse! But he still took the time to code up a visual progress bar for the suit’s initialisation sequence. There was no time to lose – a single wasted second could mean the difference between life and death. Stark had been captured by ruthless terrorists, and secretly plotting his escape. He asks Yinsen – his cellmate and assistant – to load up the software for the suit. There’s a really cool scene when he’s just about to break out of his cavey prison.

But instead of doing this, our innovative hero builds a suit of armour loaded up with all kinds of weapons, and uses it to escape. In the excellent Iron Man, genius inventor Tony Stark is kidnapped, trapped in a cave, and forced to build a missile for some nasty terrorists. But in order to do that, first I need to take you on a little journey to Hollywood… Progress bars hit the big screenĮvery once in a while, elements from our line of work show up in pop culture – and in 2008, the humble progress bar got a chance to star in a blockbuster Hollywood movie.

In this post I’ll tell you everything you need to know about progress bars. How can you make really cool CSS progress bars? What HTML do you need? And how do you use CSS and JavaScript to make it actually work?

Java script progress bar