10 Best Rating Systems In JavaScript & Pure CSS (2023 Update)

Ratings and reviews are an essential part of your online presence. They can drive traffic, boost sales and increase the trust visitors have in your website. That's why most of the popular eCommerce stores use ratings and reviews for their products.

If you don't feel like creating your own custom rating plugin, or would rather just save time and energy by using an already existing one, then you've come to the right place.

This is a list of 10 best/top downloaded JavaScript/CSS rating systems and jQuery rating plugins for creating interactive star rating controls on the web app.

Download and use these libraries/plugins to rate products, software, users on your eCommerce and digital websites.

Originally Published May 2019, updated Jan 23 2023

Table of contents:

• jQuery Rating Plugins
• Vanilla JS Rating Libraries
• Pure CSS Rating Systems

jQuery Rating Plugins:

Full-featured Star Rating Plugin For jQuery - Raty

An easy, flexible jQuery plugin which turns any DIV elements into a fully configurable star rating component .

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Simple jQuery Star Rating System For Bootstrap 5/4/3

Yet another jQuery star rating plugin that converts a number input to a star rating widget using Bootstrap 5/4/3.

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Minimal jQuery Rating Widget Plugin - Bar Rating

A minimal and lightweight jQuery plugin that turns a standard select box into a flexible bar rating widget. It is fully customizable and can be easy to style with CSS.

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SVG Based Star Rating Plugin For jQuery - star-rating-svg.js

A lightweight jQuery plugin for rendering a SVG based star rating system on your webpage that supports for arbitrary star fractions, variable star sizes and colors.

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Easy Five-Star Rating Plugin with jQuery and Font Awesome - starrr

A very lightweight jQuery plugin for creating a five-star quality rating widget that uses Font Awesome Icon Font for rating symbols.

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Pure JS Rating Plugins:

Select Box Based Star Rating JavaScript Library – star-rating.js

star-rating.js is a small JavaScript library to generate a customizable, progressively enhancement star rating control from a regular select box with numeric values.

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Interactive Star Rating Component With Pure JavaScript – rater-js

rater-js is a simple yet customizable star rating component written in pure JavaScript.

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Simple HTML5 Star Rating System – SimpleStarRating.js

A lightweight JavaScript library used for generating a simple, easy-to-customize star rating system without any 3rd dependencies and icon fonts.

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Pure CSS Rating Libraries:

Accessible Star Rating System In Pure CSS – Starability.css

Just another simple, animated, fully accessible star rating system built on top of pure CSS, radio buttons and sprite images.

[Demo] [Download]

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Creating A Star Rating Widget With Pure HTML / CSS

A CSS only approach to creating a star rating widget on your webpage using plain HTML and CSS / CSS3.

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Conclusion:

I hope you have found your ideal jQuery plugin for a five star rating system, and it makes sense why I have ranked them as I have.

If you can take anything from this post, I hope you take away that the quality of the code is the number one factor to consider when searching for a plugin.

You may be able to find an easier plugin, but in the end it will be more troublesome to use and will likely need more maintenance from your end. But take a look around and see if one of these plugins appeals to you.

If not, there is a plethora of jQuery rating plugins and Vanilla JS Rating Libraries available to help make your life easier. Good luck!