Skill Bars
Stacked horizontal bars with labels and percentages. Each row slides in with a staggered animation — the canonical pattern for portfolios, CV pages, and team skill matrices.
Skill Bars the 8th of 12 designs in the 12 CSS Progress Bar Designs collection. The design is implemented in pure CSS — no JavaScript required. Copy the HTML and CSS panels below into your project. Because the demo is pure CSS, it works in any framework or templating engine you happen to use. The design honours prefers-reduced-motion and uses real semantic markup, so it ships accessibility-ready out of the box.
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<dl class="pb-skill">
<div class="pb-skill-row">
<dt>TypeScript</dt>
<dd>
<span class="pb-skill-rail">
<span class="pb-skill-fill" style="--pb-skill-w: 92%"></span>
</span>
<span class="pb-skill-pct">92%</span>
</dd>
</div>
<div class="pb-skill-row">
<dt>React</dt>
<dd>
<span class="pb-skill-rail">
<span class="pb-skill-fill" style="--pb-skill-w: 88%; --pb-skill-delay: 0.1s"></span>
</span>
<span class="pb-skill-pct">88%</span>
</dd>
</div>
<div class="pb-skill-row">
<dt>CSS & Sass</dt>
<dd>
<span class="pb-skill-rail">
<span class="pb-skill-fill" style="--pb-skill-w: 95%; --pb-skill-delay: 0.2s"></span>
</span>
<span class="pb-skill-pct">95%</span>
</dd>
</div>
<div class="pb-skill-row">
<dt>Figma</dt>
<dd>
<span class="pb-skill-rail">
<span class="pb-skill-fill" style="--pb-skill-w: 78%; --pb-skill-delay: 0.3s"></span>
</span>
<span class="pb-skill-pct">78%</span>
</dd>
</div>
</dl> .pb-skill {
width: 260px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
display: grid;
gap: 10px;
font-family: system-ui, sans-serif;
}
.pb-skill-row {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 90px 1fr;
align-items: center;
gap: 10px;
}
.pb-skill dt {
font-size: 11.5px;
font-weight: 600;
color: #fef3c7;
letter-spacing: 0.02em;
}
.pb-skill dd {
margin: 0;
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1fr auto;
align-items: center;
gap: 8px;
}
.pb-skill-rail {
display: block;
height: 6px;
background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05);
border-radius: 99px;
overflow: hidden;
}
.pb-skill-fill {
display: block;
height: 100%;
width: 0;
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f97316, #fbbf24);
border-radius: inherit;
animation: pbSkillSlide 1s cubic-bezier(0.5, 0, 0.3, 1.2) var(--pb-skill-delay, 0s) forwards;
}
.pb-skill-pct {
font-family: "JetBrains Mono", monospace;
font-size: 11px;
font-weight: 700;
color: #fbbf24;
font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
min-width: 30px;
text-align: right;
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
.pb-skill-fill {
animation: none;
width: var(--pb-skill-w, 0%);
}
}
@keyframes pbSkillSlide {
to { width: var(--pb-skill-w, 0%); }
}