How do i assign a progress bar to a variable?

Question

<form><type="progress" min="0" max="100" value=?></form>
x = 26

Answer 1

x = document.getElementById ("giveItAnId").value;

Answer 2

inside the div put your form and inside it put an input tag with type progress and an id of your choice.
now create a variable in javascript and assign to it the code i gave you earlier