A website isn't complete without the inclusion of all the right elements. Progress bar is one of the key components of every website. It informs the user about the total waiting time for a particular web page or a specific task to load. Apart from adding value to the website, the progress bar is also capable of enhancing the overall user-friendly experience. Today, through this article I'll be offering you a detailed insight into all the steps that are involved with creation of a page load progress bar using the built-in JavaScript plugin called Progress Automatically Certain to Entertain(Pace.js).
A brief on using Pace.js As a lightweight JavaScript library, Pace.js comprises of an amazing porgress bat that works flawlessly for your page load and Ajax navigation. With this plug-in, you can ensure automatic loading of the progress bar within any web page. In addition to this, the plugin-in can be easily executed using an event loop, document-read state and several Ajax requests. Equipped with 14 built-in themes, Pace.js is perfect for adding a unique and fully-functional progress bar into your website. Pre-requisites for creating page load progress bar using Pace.js 1. A good background image 2. Pace.js Getting Started with using Pace.js
Step 1- Include Pace.js and a CSS theme on the Head section. Here's the code involved for the same:
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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html lang="en">
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<head>
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<meta charset="utf-8">
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<title>Create your own page load progress bar with Pace.js</title>
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<script src="js/pace.js"></script>
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<link href="css/pace-theme-corner-indicator.css" rel="stylesheet">
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</head>
Step 2- Since Pace.js is fully automatic, you need do any kind of configuration. You can opt for performing some tweaks as explained below: Set the window.paceOptions by including the below mentioned code snippet:
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paceOptions = {
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// Disable the 'elements' source
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elements: false,
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// Only show the progress on regular and ajax-y page navigation,
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// not every request
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restartOnRequestAfter: false
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}
Insert the above options in the script tag using the below line of code:
Step 3- You can also opt for customizing the color of the progress bar in any one of the below mentioned ways: Customize the colors via Pace.js themes page available here Go to the CSS file and opt for changing the colors of background and border And that's it. With the successful completion of this third step you're done with the process of incorporating a beautiful page loading progress bar. Loaded with a bunch of eye-catchy ready-to-use themes, Pace.js doesn't let you worry about the hassles that are associated with implementing a loading page progress bar into your website.
Summary So, that was a brief outlook of the basic steps involved with the inclusion of a page load progress bar into a website using Pace.js plug-in. Hope you'd have liked going through the article and the details covered here would assist you with your forthcoming venture of including a beautiful and fast loading progress bar in your web pages.
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Celin Smith is Java developer and blogger at Xicom who loves to write about web & mobile apps. Xicom is a one of the leading Java Development Outsourcing Company which provides different array of genuine software solutions like Custom Software Development, IT Outsourcing Services, Web application development services to its clients globally.
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