<progress>

The HTML <progress> element represents 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.
Permitted ARIA roles	None
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 zero 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 that the minimum value is always 0 and the min attribute is not allowed for the progress element. You can use the -moz-orient CSS property to specify whether the progress bar should be rendered horizontally (the default) or vertically. The :indeterminate pseudo-class can be used to match against indeterminate progress bars.

Examples

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

Result

On Windows 7, the resulting progress looks like this:

Additional examples

See -moz-orient.

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
WHATWG HTML Living Standard The definition of '<progress>' in that specification.	Living Standard
HTML5 The definition of '<progress>' in that specification.	Recommendation	Initial definition

Browser compatibility

[1] Prior to Gecko 14.0 (Firefox 14.0 / Thunderbird 14.0 / SeaMonkey 2.11), the <progress> element was incorrectly classified as a form element, and therefore had a form attribute. This has been fixed.

[2] Gecko provides the ::-moz-progress-bar pseudo-element, which lets you style the part of the interior of the progress bar representing the amount of work completed so far.

[3] Safari on iOS does not support indeterminate progress bars (they are rendered like 0%-completed progress bars).

See also

• :indeterminate
• -moz-orient
• ::-moz-progress-bar
• ::-ms-fill
• ::-webkit-progress-bar
• ::-webkit-progress-value
• ::-webkit-progress-inner-element