5 JavaScript Ratings
Enhance your interfaces with high-quality, highly accessible (A11y) rating components built using pure JavaScript and semantic HTML markup. The main focus here is on dynamic state management and efficiently rendering stars without excessive DOM manipulation, while ensuring a smooth and intuitive user experience (UX). You’ll master modern CSS techniques like CSS Variables for easy theme customization and essential methods guaranteeing full keyboard interaction (ARIA attributes).
Examples

Elastic Animated Star Rating
This Elastic Animated Star Rating component turns a mundane feedback form into a delightful micro-interaction. Instead of simple color changes, the stars spring to life with a satisfying “elastic” pop when clicked. The animation logic handles both filling (bouncing in) and emptying (shrinking away) states, making the interaction feel physically responsive and engaging. (Requires: GSAP)
See the Pen Elastic Animated Star Rating.

Rating Stars
A sophisticated star rating component featuring fractional fills implemented via CSS clip-path. The JavaScript class generates SVG stars and orchestrates a staggered entrance animation, while SCSS keyframes drive complex scale, rotate, and shockwave effects for a tactile, gamified feel.
See the Pen Rating Stars.

Animated Ratings Component
This interactive rating component stands out with three unique 3D effects, built using advanced Sass (loops, gradient randomization), - and showcases SVG facial animation via path morphing in pure JS.
See the Pen Animated Ratings Component.

Percentage Based Star Rating with Font Awesome
See how a percentage-based rating is elegantly achieved by layering two sets of Font Awesome icons, where dynamic filling is managed by the CSS properties width and overflow: hidden;. A vanilla JS script ensures instant filling updates from the input field.
See the Pen Percentage Based Star Rating with Font Awesome.

Alien Rating Control Widget
An interactive rating widget where GSAP MorphSVGPlugin drives the seamless SVG shape morphing of the avatar’s eyes and mouth, dynamically expressing an emotional response to each click, while adapting to the prefers-reduced-motion media query.
See the Pen Alien Rating Control Widget.