readingbar (jQuery plugin)

A simple progress bar that indicates the length & your current reading position of an article/page

Here's a demo

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).