<progress>: The Progress Indicator element

The <progress> HTML element displays an indicator showing the completion progress of a task, typically displayed as a progress bar.

Content categories	Flow content, phrasing content, labelable content, palpable content.
Permitted content	Phrasing content, but there must be no `<progress>` element among its descendants.
Tag omission	None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory.
Permitted parents	Any element that accepts phrasing content.
Implicit ARIA role	`progressbar`
Permitted ARIA roles	No `role` permitted
DOM interface	`HTMLProgressElement`

Attributes

This element includes the global attributes.

max: This attribute describes how much work the task indicated by the progress element requires. The max attribute, if present, must have a value greater than 0 and be a valid floating point number. The default value is 1.
value: This attribute specifies how much of the task that has been completed. It must be a valid floating point number between 0 and max, or between 0 and 1 if max is omitted. If there is no value attribute, the progress bar is indeterminate; this indicates that an activity is ongoing with no indication of how long it is expected to take.

Note: Unlike the <meter> element, the minimum value is always 0, and the min attribute is not allowed for the <progress> element.

Note: The :indeterminate pseudo-class can be used to match against indeterminate progress bars. To change the progress bar to indeterminate after giving it a value you must remove the value attribute with element.removeAttribute('value').

Examples

<progress value="70" max="100">70 %</progress>

Result

On Windows 7, the resulting progress looks like this:

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard (HTML) # the-progress-element

Browser compatibility

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