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Ignore the docs, use ‘value’ to set value in jQuery.UI.progressbar

The online documentation for the progressbar plugin for jQuery.UI says to use “progress” as the keyword when setting the value of your progress bar, something like this:

var percent = Math.floor(data.received / data.size * 100);
$(“#upload-progress”).progressbar(‘progress’, percent);

It doesn’t work. At least, it doesn’t work with the 1.6rc5 release. The correct keyword for setting the value is “value”:

var percent = Math.floor(data.received / data.size * 100);
$(“#upload-progress”).progressbar(‘value’, percent);

The documentation doesn’t mention the default range of values for progressbar, but it is from 0 to 100. Actually the docs have all this stuff about showing custom text and the numeric value in the bar and that doesn’t seem to work neither.

In a way this small imperfection makes me admire jQuery even more. And this post is a kiss on her cheek.

I’ve filed a bug! [#3871 on jQuery.UI’s Trac](http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/ticket/3871).