 <p>I did something similar recently.</p> <p><div class="snippet" data-lang="js" data-hide="false"> <div class="snippet-code"> <pre class="snippet-code-css lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>.progressbar { margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 30px; overflow: hidden; counter-reset: step; } .progressbar li { list-style-type: none; color: #555555; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: center; font-size: 9px; width: 20%; float: left; position: relative; } .progressbar li:before { content: counter(step); counter-increment: step; width: 20px; line-height: 20px; display: block; font-size: 10px; color: #333; background: #bfbfbf; border-radius: 20px; margin: 0 auto 5px auto; } .progressbar li:after { content: ''; width: 100%; height: 2px; background: #bfbfbf; position: absolute; left: -50%; top: 9px; margin-left: 5px; z-index: -1; } .progressbar li:first-child:after { content: none; } .progressbar li.stepped { color: #900028; font-weight: bold; } .progressbar li.stepped:before, .progressbar li.stepped:after{ background: #900028; color: white; } </code></pre> <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;ul class="progressbar"&gt; &lt;li class="stepped"&gt;Step 1&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="stepped"&gt;Step 2&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="stepped"&gt;Step 3&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Step 4&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Step 5&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;</code></pre> </div> </div> </p> <p>(credit: <a href="http://thecodeplayer.com/walkthrough/jquery-multi-step-form-with-progress-bar" rel="nofollow">http://thecodeplayer.com/walkthrough/jquery-multi-step-form-with-progress-bar</a>)</p>