How to embed a progressbar into a HTML form? - html

Question

I have this code below and want it to show the progress of a form submission of a file upload. I want it to work on my website visit it through this IP (24.148.156.217). So if you saw the website I want the progress bar to be displayed when the user fills in the information and then hits the submit button. Then the progress bar displays with the time until it's finished.
<style>
<!--
.hide { position:absolute; visibility:hidden; }
.show { position:absolute; visibility:visible; }
-->
</style>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
//Progress Bar script- by Todd King (tking#igpp.ucla.edu)
//Modified by JavaScript Kit for NS6, ability to specify duration
//Visit JavaScript Kit (http://javascriptkit.com) for script
var duration=3 // Specify duration of progress bar in seconds
var _progressWidth = 50; // Display width of progress bar.
var _progressBar = "|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||"
var _progressEnd = 5;
var _progressAt = 0;
// Create and display the progress dialog.
// end: The number of steps to completion
function ProgressCreate(end) {
// Initialize state variables
_progressEnd = end;
_progressAt = 0;
// Move layer to center of window to show
if (document.all) { // Internet Explorer
progress.className = 'show';
progress.style.left = (document.body.clientWidth/2) - (progress.offsetWidth/2);
progress.style.top = document.body.scrollTop+(document.body.clientHeight/2) - (progress.offsetHeight/2);
} else if (document.layers) { // Netscape
document.progress.visibility = true;
document.progress.left = (window.innerWidth/2) - 100+"px";
document.progress.top = pageYOffset+(window.innerHeight/2) - 40+"px";
} else if (document.getElementById) { // Netscape 6+
document.getElementById("progress").className = 'show';
document.getElementById("progress").style.left = (window.innerWidth/2)- 100+"px";
document.getElementById("progress").style.top = pageYOffset+(window.innerHeight/2) - 40+"px";
}
ProgressUpdate(); // Initialize bar
}
// Hide the progress layer
function ProgressDestroy() {
// Move off screen to hide
if (document.all) { // Internet Explorer
progress.className = 'hide';
} else if (document.layers) { // Netscape
document.progress.visibility = false;
} else if (document.getElementById) { // Netscape 6+
document.getElementById("progress").className = 'hide';
}
}
// Increment the progress dialog one step
function ProgressStepIt() {
_progressAt++;
if(_progressAt > _progressEnd) _progressAt = _progressAt % _progressEnd;
ProgressUpdate();
}
// Update the progress dialog with the current state
function ProgressUpdate() {
var n = (_progressWidth / _progressEnd) * _progressAt;
if (document.all) { // Internet Explorer
var bar = dialog.bar;
} else if (document.layers) { // Netscape
var bar = document.layers["progress"].document.forms["dialog"].bar;
n = n * 0.55; // characters are larger
} else if (document.getElementById){
var bar=document.getElementById("bar")
}
var temp = _progressBar.substring(0, n);
bar.value = temp;
}
// Demonstrate a use of the progress dialog.
function Demo() {
ProgressCreate(10);
window.setTimeout("Click()", 100);
}
function Click() {
if(_progressAt >= _progressEnd) {
ProgressDestroy();
return;
}
ProgressStepIt();
window.setTimeout("Click()", (duration-1)*1000/10);
}
function CallJS(jsStr) { //v2.0
return eval(jsStr)
}
</script>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
// Create layer for progress dialog
document.write("<span id=\"progress\" class=\"hide\">");
document.write("<FORM name=dialog id=dialog>");
document.write("<TABLE border=2 bgcolor=\"#FFFFCC\">");
document.write("<TR><TD ALIGN=\"center\">");
document.write("Progress<BR>");
document.write("<input type=text name=\"bar\" id=\"bar\" size=\"" + _progressWidth/2 + "\"");
if(document.all||document.getElementById) // Microsoft, NS6
document.write(" bar.style=\"color:navy;\">");
else // Netscape
document.write(">");
document.write("</TD></TR>");
document.write("</TABLE>");
document.write("</FORM>");
document.write("</span>");
ProgressDestroy(); // Hides
</script>
<form name="form1" method="post">
<center>
<input type="button" name="Demo" value="Display progress" onClick="CallJS('Demo()')">
</center>
</form>
Text link example

Answer 1

JQuery UI has a progress bar feature.
This is a purely CSS progress bar that works on most browsers including IE6.

Answer 2

If using Flash is okay for you, you could try SWFUpload.