Ratings, polls, and voting are essential part of web design and used for many e-commerce, business and entertainment related sites. If you are a developer and working on some e-commerce or business site you would definitely implement the rating interface for your web applications.
Rating lets you interact with your customers and helps you to understand your products by grabbing the feedback by visitors. Rating lets you understand your product better and help you to create specific products which are in demand for your users.
In this article we have amassed a list of jQuery Rating Plugins that will help developers to easily setup a rating system for better user experience. Following jQuery Rating plugins will gear up your visitors mood and let them stay on the website to play around.
If you are aware of some more useful jQuery Rating Plugins, please let us know by posting a comment below, we would love to hear your feedback. Enjoy !!
1. jRating
jRating is a very flexible jQuery plugin for quickly creating an Ajaxed star rating system. It is possible to configure every details from “the number of the stars” to “if the stars can represent decimals or not”. There is also an option to display small or big stars and images can be changed with any other file easily. Although jRating can be used with any scripting language, a PHP file that handles the requests is already included in the download package on github.
2. Starrr
Starrr is lightweight jquery plugin that gives you 1-5 start rating on single click, it is easy to use and can easily integrate in your web application.
3. jQuery Upvote
jQuery Upvote is a plugin that generates a voting widget like the one used on Stack Exchange sites.
4. Ratemate
Ratemate is a jQuery plugin for ratings. It uses Raphael to draw the symbols, rating is read-only when used on a meter element, using ratemate on an input element whose type is number or range will cause the rating to be controlled by user.
5. jSimple Star Rating
jQuery plugin to generate a simple star rating element. Hover, Active, Select, Deselect, Minus. Selected rating stored as data-attribute, server readable if required.
6. jQuery WebRating
Another impressive rating plugin for users that offers number of features such as use starts, hearts smiles, css based coloring, customized toop tip option, callback functions on click and hover, use cookies to limit clicks per visitor and many more.
7. jQuery Bar Rating
jQuery Bar Rating Plugin works by transforming a standard select box into a rating widget. It’s only 4kb minified and easy to style with CSS.
8. Rate it
Fast, Progressive enhancement, touch support, customizable (just swap out the images, or change some CSS), Unobtrusive JavaScript (using HTML5 data-* attributes), RTL support, ARIA & keyboard support. Use as many stars as you’d like, and also any step size.
9. rateThis
rateThis is a jquery plugin that allows you to easy create rating functionality for your form.
10. jQuery Star Rating
The Star Rating Plugin is a plugin for the jQuery Javascript library that creates a non-obstrusive star rating control based on a set of radio input boxes. It turns a collection of radio boxes into a neat star-rating control; It creates the interface based on standard form elements, which means the basic functionality will still be available even if Javascript is disabled.
11. Star Rating
You can reveal pretty rating stars by this plugin. This plugin working fast because there is no user options. Just include and call it. If you would like store votes in a database then you must use callback method. Keep in mind its only beta version.
12. Bootstrap Rating Input
Another plugin that eases the generation of rating stars for jQuery and Bootstrap and its lightweight only 2kb.
13. jStarbox
It is quite small, does not produce massive amounts of inline styles and is mostly compatible with existing css for the Prototype Starbox.
14. Half Star Rating Plugin
This is a jQuery plugin for star rating systems. The initial inspiration for this script came from Wil Stuckey’s star rating system. But the original script requires too much coding. Also it does not have provision for developing a star system (such as GMail, where you star or un-star an email).
15. Bootstrap Rating
Bootstrap Rating is a jQuery plugin that creates a rating control that uses Bootstrap glyphicons for rating symbols.
