Showing less then 1% on the BootStrap progress bar

Question

I am using the bootstrap progress bar to show the percentage of miles covered by someone from a total of 23,872 miles.

For example if user A covered only 5 miles which means:

5/23872 = 0.00020945 * 100 = 0.02094504 miles.

Currently anything below 1% does not show up on the progress bar.

Is it possible to be able to show the percentage of miles below 1 the bar so it lights up green just the 28% in the image above.

Code for Conversion:

// Calculating Percentages for each region
var ukPercent = $scope.ukTotal / 23872;
var apacPercent = $scope.apacTotal / 23872;
var naPercent = $scope.naTotal / 23872;

$scope.ukPercentage = ukPercent * 100;
$scope.naPercentage = naPercent * 100;
$scope.apacPercentage = apacPercent * 100;

Answer 1

If you don't care if how much less than 1% it is, how about using Math.max() to just start at one percent and then start making meaningful progress after that.

Demo in Stack Snippets

var $traveled = $("#traveledMiles"),
    $total = $("#totalMiles"),
    $progressBar = $('.progress-bar');

$($traveled).add($total).keyup(function(){

  var percent = $traveled.val() / $total.val() * 100;

  // at least 1%
  percent = Math.max(percent,1);

  $progressBar
    .css('width', percent+'%')
    .attr('aria-valuenow', percent)
    .children(".sr-only").html(percent+'%'); 

}).keyup();

<link href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.2/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.2/js/bootstrap.js"></script>


<div class="form-group">
  <label for="traveledMiles">Traveled Miles</label>
  <input type="text" class="form-control" id="traveledMiles"
         placeholder="Enter Traveled Miles" value="5">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
  <label for="totalMiles">Total Miles</label>
  <input type="text" class="form-control" id="totalMiles" 
         placeholder="Enter Total Miles" value="23872">
</div>

<div class="progress">
  <div class="progress-bar" role="progressbar"  style="width: 60%;"
       aria-valuenow="60" aria-valuemin="0" aria-valuemax="100">
    <span class="sr-only">60%</span>
  </div>
</div>

Since you have a label, you could even follow Bootstrap's suggestion:

To ensure that the label text remains legible even for low percentages, consider adding a min-width to the progress bar.

Like this:

<div class="progress-bar" style="min-width: 2em;">

var $traveled = $("#traveledMiles"),
    $total = $("#totalMiles"),
    $progressBar = $('.progress-bar');

$($traveled).add($total).keyup(function(){

  var percent = $traveled.val() / $total.val() * 100;

  // at least 1%
  percent = Math.max(percent,1);
  
  // round off decimals
  percent = Math.round(percent);
  
  // max of 100%
  percent = Math.min(percent,100);

  $progressBar
    .css('width', percent+'%')
    .attr('aria-valuenow', percent)
    .html(percent+'%'); 

}).keyup();

<link href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.2/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.2/js/bootstrap.js"></script>


<div class="form-group">
  <label for="traveledMiles">Traveled Miles</label>
  <input type="text" class="form-control" id="traveledMiles"
         placeholder="Enter Traveled Miles" value="5">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
  <label for="totalMiles">Total Miles</label>
  <input type="text" class="form-control" id="totalMiles" 
         placeholder="Enter Total Miles" value="23872">
</div>

<div class="progress">
  <div class="progress-bar" role="progressbar"  style="min-width: 2em;width: 60%;"
       aria-valuenow="60" aria-valuemin="0" aria-valuemax="100">
    60%
  </div>
</div>

Answer 2

I think the best approach would be to use a variable called something like "realProgress" to keep track of the decimal value of your progress bar. Since a bootstrap progress bar only works with integers you can update it's value like so (in Javascript):

realProgress = 0.0; realProgress += some percentage of progress made;

$("#my-progress-bar").css("width", math.Floor(realProgress) + "%");

This way, the progress bar's value still get updated in a way that is meaningful to the user.