Introduction

Putting loads of content on your website usually results in increasing its loading time. This may lead to wrecking your User Experience, increasing abandonment rate or lowering your position in search engines.

That’s why you should always provide your user with appropriate feedback.

If it takes too long for your website to load up, your user will be less stressed about it when he sees a simple progress bar. It means as much as “Everything is fine. The content you want to see will load in a few seconds”

Basic example Premium component

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 

<progress class="progress" value="0" max="100">0%</progress>
<progress class="progress" value="25" max="100">25%</progress>
<progress class="progress" value="50" max="100">50%</progress>
<progress class="progress" value="75" max="100">75%</progress>
<progress class="progress" value="100" max="100">100%</progress>

IE9 support


Internet Explorer 9 doesn’t support the HTML5 <progress> element, but we can work around that.

25% 

<progress class="progress" value="25" max="100">
  <div class="progress">
    <span class="progress-bar" style="width: 25%;">25%</span>
  </div>
</progress>

Contextual alternatives Premium component

Progress bars use some of the same button and alert classes for consistent styles.

25% 50% 75% 100% 

<progress class="progress progress-success" value="25" max="100">25%</progress>
<progress class="progress progress-info" value="50" max="100">50%</progress>
<progress class="progress progress-warning" value="75" max="100">75%</progress>
<progress class="progress progress-danger" value="100" max="100">100%</progress>

Prealoaders Premium component

Infinite loading:




<div class="progress">
    <div class="indeterminate" style="width: 70%"></div>
</div>

Circles:




<!--Big blue-->
  <div class="preloader-wrapper big active">
    <div class="spinner-layer spinner-blue-only">
      <div class="circle-clipper left">
        <div class="circle"></div>
      </div><div class="gap-patch">
        <div class="circle"></div>
      </div><div class="circle-clipper right">
        <div class="circle"></div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>

<!--Medium red-->
  <div class="preloader-wrapper active">
    <div class="spinner-layer spinner-red-only">
      <div class="circle-clipper left">
        <div class="circle"></div>
      </div><div class="gap-patch">
        <div class="circle"></div>
      </div><div class="circle-clipper right">
        <div class="circle"></div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>

<!--Small yellow-->
    <div class="preloader-wrapper small active">
    <div class="spinner-layer spinner-yellow-only">
      <div class="circle-clipper left">
        <div class="circle"></div>
      </div><div class="gap-patch">
        <div class="circle"></div>
      </div><div class="circle-clipper right">
        <div class="circle"></div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>

Crazy circles:




   <div class="preloader-wrapper big active">
     <div class="preloader-wrapper big active">
     <div class="preloader-wrapper big active">
   <div class="preloader-wrapper big active">
    <div class="spinner-layer spinner-blue-only">
      <div class="circle-clipper left">
        <div class="circle"></div>
      </div><div class="gap-patch">
        <div class="circle"></div>
      </div><div class="circle-clipper right">
        <div class="circle"></div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  </div>
  </div>
  </div>

Multicolor:




<div class="preloader-wrapper big active">
      <div class="spinner-layer spinner-blue">
        <div class="circle-clipper left">
          <div class="circle"></div>
        </div><div class="gap-patch">
          <div class="circle"></div>
        </div><div class="circle-clipper right">
          <div class="circle"></div>
        </div>
      </div>

      <div class="spinner-layer spinner-red">
        <div class="circle-clipper left">
          <div class="circle"></div>
        </div><div class="gap-patch">
          <div class="circle"></div>
        </div><div class="circle-clipper right">
          <div class="circle"></div>
        </div>
      </div>

      <div class="spinner-layer spinner-yellow">
        <div class="circle-clipper left">
          <div class="circle"></div>
        </div><div class="gap-patch">
          <div class="circle"></div>
        </div><div class="circle-clipper right">
          <div class="circle"></div>
        </div>
      </div>

      <div class="spinner-layer spinner-green">
        <div class="circle-clipper left">
          <div class="circle"></div>
        </div><div class="gap-patch">
          <div class="circle"></div>
        </div><div class="circle-clipper right">
          <div class="circle"></div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>

Preloading script

Click the button below to see Preloading Script in action:

Live preview

Usage:


Immediately below opening <body> tag put the following code:


<div id="mdb-preloader" class="flex-center">
    <div id="preloader-markup">
    </div>
</div>

The script runs until your page is fully loaded.


To change the Preloader go to mdb-addons/preloader.html in the folder of your unzipped MDB package and replace the existing (default) code with the new Preloader.

Default code:


 <div class="preloader-wrapper big active">
     <div class="preloader-wrapper big active">
     <div class="preloader-wrapper big active">
   <div class="preloader-wrapper big active">
    <div class="spinner-layer spinner-blue-only">
      <div class="circle-clipper left">
        <div class="circle"></div>
      </div><div class="gap-patch">
        <div class="circle"></div>
      </div><div class="circle-clipper right">
        <div class="circle"></div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  </div>
  </div>
  </div>