indeterminate

November 16, 2023

A cool thing I always forget: The <progress> tag can be put in an “indeterminate” state by omitting the value attribute. The idea is that we want to signal to the user that something is in progress, but we don’t know how far along it is.

With a value:

Indeterminate:

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