Creating colored bars for poll results

Question

In my web app I'd like to display poll results with colored bars with length proportional to the percentage of votes. How can I achieve this with HTML/CSS?

Answer 1

This site contains some nice examples:

http://apples-to-oranges.com/blog/post/css-for-bar-graphs/?id=55

And here is a collection of 16 different types of bar graphs:

http://speckyboy.com/2009/02/04/16-usable-css-graph-and-bar-chart-tutorials-and-techniques/