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I would like to draw a node around a one-line text, with only the left part filled. The size of that 'left part' would be specified by some fraction. In effect, this would be a progress bar with text inside. 

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document}
 \begin{tikzpicture}

 \draw (0, 0) node[draw, fill = green!10, fill fraction = .7] {Some
 text};

 \end{tikzpicture}
 \end{document}

Of course my fictitious option 'fill fraction', which should say that only the leftmost 70% should be filled, gets ignored.

Sigur
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It is so cruel that TikZ ignored you, I had to do something about it. ;-)

\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc} 
\begin{document}
 \begin{tikzpicture}[fill fraction/.style n args={2}{path picture={
 \fill[#1] (path picture bounding box.south west) rectangle
 ($(path picture bounding box.north west)!#2!(path picture bounding box.north
 east)$);}}]

 \draw (0, 0) node[draw, fill fraction={green!10}{0.7}] {Some
 text};
 \draw (4, 0) node[circle,draw, fill fraction={green!10}{0.7}] {Some
 other text};
 \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

enter image description here

  • Very efficient thank you ! Can you help us understand how it works ? – joseldsm Mar 07 '19 at 07:43
  • @joseldsm I just add a path picture. This is something that is drawn on the background and clipped against the node boundary path. –  Mar 07 '19 at 14:40
  • Nice and simple! In my case, I wanted to fill the white portion of the circle with another color (say red). You can fill the entire circle first by adding \draw node[circle, draw, fill={red}] before the \draw command that uses fill fraction – Addison Klinke Jul 25 '20 at 23:50