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File Upload with Progress Bar HTML CSS & JavaScript

Hey friends, today in this blog you’ll how to Upload File with Progress in HTML CSS & JavaScript.

In this project (File Upload JavaScript with Progress Bar), as you can see in the preview image, there are two pictures of the file uploader. In the first one, there is a dashed border container with an icon and text to browse the file to upload.

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When you click on this container an open file window will open and you can select any file to upload. Once you select the file then you can see in the second picture, there is shown your file uploading status with filename, uploaded percent, progress bar, etc. and there is the history of the uploaded files with filename, size, etc.

I hope you want to get source codes or files of this project but don’t worry I have given all to source codes to the bottom of the page. But before copy-paste the codes, let’s talk about the important codes and concepts behind creating this file uploader.

In the JavaScript file, I used the change event to get the user selected filename and then called the uploadFile(filename) function with passing the filename as an argument. Inside uploadFile() function, using Ajax I sent the selected file to the PHP. As you can have seen on the codes, I used upload property and progress event to get file loaded value and file total size.

In the PHP file, I received the file and added the current time before the filename to make the filename dynamic and moved this file to the files folder using PHP inbuilt function move_uploaded_file.

File Upload JavaScript with Progress Bar [Source Codes]

To create this project (File Upload JavaScript). First, you need to create four Files: HTML, CSS, JavaScript & PHP files. After creating these files just paste the following codes into your file. Remember, you’ve to create a folder with php name and inside this folder, you’ve to create php file a name of upload.php and a files folder to saved all uploaded files.

First, create an HTML file with the name of index.html and paste the given codes into your HTML file. Remember, you’ve to create a file with .html extension.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>File Upload JavaScript with Progress Ba</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css"/>
</head>
<body>
  <div class="wrapper">
    <header>File Uploader JavaScript</header>
    <form action="#">
      <input class="file-input" type="file" name="file" hidden>
      <i class="fas fa-cloud-upload-alt"></i>
      <p>Browse File to Upload</p>
    </form>
    <section class="progress-area"></section>
    <section class="uploaded-area"></section>
  </div>

  <script src="script.js"></script>

</body>
</html>
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Second, create a CSS file with the name of style.css and paste the given codes in your CSS file. Remember, you’ve to create a file with .css extension.

/* Import Google font - Poppins */
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Poppins:wght@400;500;600&display=swap');
*{
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  font-family: "Poppins", sans-serif;
}
body{
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  min-height: 100vh;
  background: #6990F2;
}

::selection{
  color: #fff;
  background: #6990F2;
}
.wrapper{
  width: 430px;
  background: #fff;
  border-radius: 5px;
  padding: 30px;
  box-shadow: 7px 7px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.05);
}
.wrapper header{
  color: #6990F2;
  font-size: 27px;
  font-weight: 600;
  text-align: center;
}
.wrapper form{
  height: 167px;
  display: flex;
  cursor: pointer;
  margin: 30px 0;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  flex-direction: column;
  border-radius: 5px;
  border: 2px dashed #6990F2;
}
form :where(i, p){
  color: #6990F2;
}
form i{
  font-size: 50px;
}
form p{
  margin-top: 15px;
  font-size: 16px;
}

section .row{
  margin-bottom: 10px;
  background: #E9F0FF;
  list-style: none;
  padding: 15px 20px;
  border-radius: 5px;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: space-between;
}
section .row i{
  color: #6990F2;
  font-size: 30px;
}
section .details span{
  font-size: 14px;
}
.progress-area .row .content{
  width: 100%;
  margin-left: 15px;
}
.progress-area .details{
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  margin-bottom: 7px;
  justify-content: space-between;
}
.progress-area .content .progress-bar{
  height: 6px;
  width: 100%;
  margin-bottom: 4px;
  background: #fff;
  border-radius: 30px;
}
.content .progress-bar .progress{
  height: 100%;
  width: 0%;
  background: #6990F2;
  border-radius: inherit;
}
.uploaded-area{
  max-height: 232px;
  overflow-y: scroll;
}
.uploaded-area.onprogress{
  max-height: 150px;
}
.uploaded-area::-webkit-scrollbar{
  width: 0px;
}
.uploaded-area .row .content{
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
}
.uploaded-area .row .details{
  display: flex;
  margin-left: 15px;
  flex-direction: column;
}
.uploaded-area .row .details .size{
  color: #404040;
  font-size: 11px;
}
.uploaded-area i.fa-check{
  font-size: 16px;
}
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Third, create a JavaScript file with the name of script.js and paste the given codes into your JavaScript file. Remember, you’ve to create a file with .js extension.

const form = document.querySelector("form"),
fileInput = document.querySelector(".file-input"),
progressArea = document.querySelector(".progress-area"),
uploadedArea = document.querySelector(".uploaded-area");

form.addEventListener("click", () =>{
  fileInput.click();
});

fileInput.onchange = ({target})=>{
  let file = target.files[0];
  if(file){
    let fileName = file.name;
    if(fileName.length >= 12){
      let splitName = fileName.split('.');
      fileName = splitName[0].substring(0, 13) + "... ." + splitName[1];
    }
    uploadFile(fileName);
  }
}

function uploadFile(name){
  let xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
  xhr.open("POST", "php/upload.php");
  xhr.upload.addEventListener("progress", ({loaded, total}) =>{
    let fileLoaded = Math.floor((loaded / total) * 100);
    let fileTotal = Math.floor(total / 1000);
    let fileSize;
    (fileTotal < 1024) ? fileSize = fileTotal + " KB" : fileSize = (loaded / (1024*1024)).toFixed(2) + " MB";
    let progressHTML = `<li class="row">
                          <i class="fas fa-file-alt"></i>
                          <div class="content">
                            <div class="details">
                              <span class="name">${name} • Uploading</span>
                              <span class="percent">${fileLoaded}%</span>
                            </div>
                            <div class="progress-bar">
                              <div class="progress" style="width: ${fileLoaded}%"></div>
                            </div>
                          </div>
                        </li>`;
    uploadedArea.classList.add("onprogress");
    progressArea.innerHTML = progressHTML;
    if(loaded == total){
      progressArea.innerHTML = "";
      let uploadedHTML = `<li class="row">
                            <div class="content upload">
                              <i class="fas fa-file-alt"></i>
                              <div class="details">
                                <span class="name">${name} • Uploaded</span>
                                <span class="size">${fileSize}</span>
                              </div>
                            </div>
                            <i class="fas fa-check"></i>
                          </li>`;
      uploadedArea.classList.remove("onprogress");
      uploadedArea.insertAdjacentHTML("afterbegin", uploadedHTML);
    }
  });
  let data = new FormData(form);
  xhr.send(data);
}
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Last, create a PHP file with the name of message.php and paste the given codes into your PHP file. Remember, you’ve to create a file with .php extension.

<?php
  $file_name =  $_FILES['file']['name'];
  $tmp_name = $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'];
  $file_up_name = time().$file_name;
  move_uploaded_file($tmp_name, "files/".$file_up_name);
?>
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So this is all for today. I hope you like this. you can check more useful post at Code With Imam.

All the Best!

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