Star Ratings With Very Little CSS

by Roman

HTML

<div class="rating">
<span>☆</span><span>☆</span><span>☆</span><span>☆</span><span>☆</span>
</div>

CSS

.rating {
    unicode-bidi: bidi-override;
    direction: rtl;
    text-align: center;
    white-space: nowrap;
}
.rating > span {
    display: inline-block;
    position: relative;
    width: 1.1em;
}
.rating > span:hover, .rating > span:hover ~ span,
.rating > span.hover, .rating > span.hover ~ span {
    color: transparent;
}
.rating > span:hover:before, .rating > span:hover ~ span:before,
.rating > span.hover:before, .rating > span.hover ~ span:before {
    content: "\2605";
    position: absolute;
    left: 0;
    /*color: gold;*/
    color: #e1271f;
}