Create jQuery Form with Progress bar and Input Limiter

Author: Zeeshan Rasool  |  Apr 24, 2010 JQuery, PHP, Web Development

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Simple jQuery progress bar on form to show characters length with input limiter functionality. Demo available with downloads.

CSS for your form.

body{ margin:30px auto; width:75%; font: normal normal 12px/1.8em "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; }
 #heading
{
 font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
 font-size:56px;
 color:#CC0000;
 float:left;}
 a{
 font-size:24px}
#description
{
	width:297px; height:100px;
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

	color:#000000;
	font-size:15px;
}
#filling_tube_input
{
	background-color:red;
	width:0px;
	height:6px;
}
#filling_tube_subject
{
	background-color:red;
	width:0px;
	height:6px;
}
#filling_tube
{
	background-color:red;
	width:0px;
	height:6px;
}
.label{
       width:100px;
}
input{outline: none; margin-bottom:1px;/* Get rid of the 'glow' effect in WebKit, optional */}
#container
{
height:6px; background-color:#FFFFFF; width:299px; border:solid 1px #000; margin-right:3px;
}
#container_input
{
height:6px; background-color:#FFFFFF; width:201px; border:solid 1px #999; margin-right:3px;
}
#container_subject
{
height:6px; background-color:#FFFFFF; width:201px; border:solid 1px #000; margin-right:3px;
}

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jQuery file with input limiter plugin.

Downlad Input Limiter Plugin

javascript to call input limiter function.

$(function() {
	$('#description').inputlimiter({limit: 200});
    $('#name').inputlimiter({limit: 35});
    $('#subject').inputlimiter({limit: 100});
});

Code to perform progress bar action

$(document).ready(function()
{
	$("#description").keyup(function()
	{
		var box=$(this).val();
		var fill = box.length;
		var main = box.length *100;
		if(fill <= 200)
		{
			fill = fill/2;
			var round_val = Math.round(fill);
			$('#filling_tube').animate(
			{
			"width": fill+'%',
			}, 1);
		}

	});
    $("#name").keyup(function()
	{
		var box=$(this).val();
		var fill2 = box.length;
		var main = box.length *100;
        if(fill2 <= 40)
		{
            fill2 = fill2*3;
            fill2 = fill2-5;
            $('#filling_tube_input').animate(
			{
			"width": fill2+'%',
			}, 1);
		}

  	});
   $("#subject").keyup(function()
	{
		var box=$(this).val();
		var fill3 = box.length;
		var main = box.length *100;
        if(fill3 <= 100)
		{
			$('#filling_tube_subject').animate(
			{
			"width": fill3+'%',
			}, 1);
		}

  	});

});

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