Super Simple jQuery Five-Star Rating Plugin with jQuery and CSS3

Rating is a super tiny jQuery plugin for creating a basic five-star rating widget based on CSS3 transforms.

How to use it:

1. Include jQuery javascript library and the jQuery rating plugin in your document.

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="jquery-rating.js"></script>

2. Create a group of DIVs for the rating widget.

<div id="1" class="ratenode nomal"></div>
<div id="2" class="ratenode nomal"></div>
<div id="3" class="ratenode nomal"></div>
<div id="4" class="ratenode nomal"></div>
<div id="5" class="ratenode nomal"></div>

3. The CSS to draw stars using CSS3 transforms. The stars can be scaled as large as possible to fit any container.

.rating {
  float: left;
  margin: 6px 0;
  position: relative;
  display: block;
  color: red;
  width: 0px;
  height: 0px;
  border-right: 10px solid transparent;
  border-bottom: 7px solid #CC6600;
  border-left: 10px solid transparent;
  -moz-transform: rotate(35deg);
  -webkit-transform: rotate(35deg);
  -ms-transform: rotate(35deg);
  -o-transform: rotate(35deg);
}

.rating:before {
  border-bottom: 8px solid #CC6600;
  border-left: 3px solid transparent;
  border-right: 3px solid transparent;
  position: absolute;
  height: 0px;
  width: 0px;
  top: -4.5px;
  left: -6.5px;
  display: block;
  content: '';
  -webkit-transform: rotate(-35deg);
  -moz-transform: rotate(-35deg);
  -ms-transform: rotate(-35deg);
  -o-transform: rotate(-35deg);
}

.rating:after {
  position: absolute;
  display: block;
  color: red;
  top: 0.3px;
  left: -10.5px;
  width: 0px;
  height: 0px;
  border-right: 10px solid transparent;
  border-bottom: 7px solid #CC6600;
  border-left: 10px solid transparent;
  -webkit-transform: rotate(-70deg);
  -moz-transform: rotate(-70deg);
  -ms-transform: rotate(-70deg);
  -o-transform: rotate(-70deg);
  content: '';
}

.nomal {
  float: left;
  margin: 6px 0;
  position: relative;
  display: block;
  color: red;
  width: 0px;
  height: 0px;
  border-right: 10px solid transparent;
  border-bottom: 7px solid grey;
  border-left: 10px solid transparent;
  -moz-transform: rotate(35deg);
  -webkit-transform: rotate(35deg);
  -ms-transform: rotate(35deg);
  -o-transform: rotate(35deg);
}

.nomal:before {
  border-bottom: 8px solid grey;
  border-left: 3px solid transparent;
  border-right: 3px solid transparent;
  position: absolute;
  height: 0px;
  width: 0px;
  top: -4.5px;
  left: -6.5px;
  display: block;
  content: '';
  -webkit-transform: rotate(-35deg);
  -moz-transform: rotate(-35deg);
  -ms-transform: rotate(-35deg);
  -o-transform: rotate(-35deg);
}

.nomal:after {
  position: absolute;
  display: block;
  color: red;
  top: 0.3px;
  left: -10.5px;
  width: 0px;
  height: 0px;
  border-right: 10px solid transparent;
  border-bottom: 7px solid grey;
  border-left: 10px solid transparent;
  -webkit-transform: rotate(-70deg);
  -moz-transform: rotate(-70deg);
  -ms-transform: rotate(-70deg);
  -o-transform: rotate(-70deg);
  content: '';
}

4. Initialize the rating widget.

$.rating.init();

5. Get the current rating.

$.rating.getCurrentRating()

Change log:

2014-07-31

• fix :It's easy to have conflict of class name of CSS

2014-07-29

• support init rating

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This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by Jayin. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.