readingbar (jQuery plugin)
A simple progress bar that indicates the length & your current reading position of an article/page
Adding it to your site
Install it using npm npm install readingbar
or download the script file from the repo.
// select the element you wish to track (ie. in a blog post target only the container of the actual post content) $('.article').readingbar();
Options
// you can set the text indicator, height and the color of the bar. $('.article').readingbar({ counter: false, // Set to `true` if you want to display a % value for progress height: 10, // Height of the bar (in px) backgroundColor: '#22252C' // Color of the bar });
Customize
You can add your own styles by adding properties to the following classes: .read-bar
(bar) & .read-text
(% text).