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Adding a Progress Bar

You get a coloured bar with a label that shows at a glance how far something has come. Use it for project status, fundraising goals, course progress or skill levels.

Purple striped progress bar at 73% labelled Website redesign

Add a progress bar

Open your page while logged in: the builder controls appear when you hover the content area. Your first page shows the basics.

  1. Hover the column and click + in its control bar, or click Add Elements on an empty page. Open the Content tab and click Progress bar. It lands at the top of the column and its settings dialog opens.
  2. Type a Label for the bar, such as "Website redesign".
  3. Drag Progress to set how far the bar fills, or type the value in the box beside the slider. Here we choose 73 percent.
  4. Pick a Front color for the filled part from the palette.
  5. Lower in the same dialog, choose whether the bar gets Stripes. Here we tick Add striped pattern to bar.
  6. Click Save in the dialog. Then click Save in the toolbar at the top of the content area to store the page.

What you see

A bar with your label fills to the value you set, in the colour you picked. The label sits inside the filled part. In the video, the striped bar reads Website redesign and fills 73% of its track. Visitors see it once you save the page and it is published.

Set up your progress bar

Hover the element and open More > Settings in its control bar. Options:

  • Label: the text on the bar. You can also click the label on the page and edit it there.
  • Progress: how far the bar fills, from 0 to 100 percent. The default is 50.
  • Bar height: the height of the bar in pixels. The default is 45.
  • Back color: the colour of the empty track.
  • Front color: the colour of the filled part.
  • Grow animation: off by default. When on, the bar starts empty and fills once half of it is in view.
  • Stripes: Add striped pattern to bar adds diagonal stripes. Animate stripes (requires striped pattern) makes them move.

If you don't see it

  • Progress bar is not in the Content tab. Your user profile hides it. Ask an administrator to enable it in User Profiles.
  • It is gone after you reload. The page was not saved. Add it again and click Save in the toolbar at the top of the content area.
  • The bar looks empty. Progress is 0, or Grow animation is on and the bar is not yet half in view. Scroll down to the bar, or hover the element and open More > Settings to raise Progress.
  • There are no stripes, or they do not move. Add striped pattern to bar is not ticked, and Animate stripes (requires striped pattern) needs it. Tick Add striped pattern to bar under Stripes.
  • The filled part blends into the track. Front color and Back color are too alike. Pick a darker Front color or a lighter Back color.

What's next?

Style tab to change spacing and background for your progress bar.

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