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HTML

              
                <svg style="position: absolute; width: 0; height: 0; overflow: hidden" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
  <symbol id="star" viewBox="0 0 28 28" preserveAspectRatio="xMaxYMax meet">
            <title>Star Rating</title>
            <path class="star"
                  d="M13.996,22.501 L22.649,27.997 L20.352,17.637 L27.996,10.667 L17.930,9.768 L13.996,-0.003 L10.063,9.768 L-0.003,10.667 L7.641,17.637 L5.345,27.997 L13.996,22.501 Z"/>
        </symbol>
</svg>


<div class="container">
  <h2>Star rating widget with SVG <code>&lt;use&gt;</code></h2>
  <p>I needed a star rating widget that uses SVG and is able to highlight half star (like: 4.5 stars) - and this is my solution.</p>
  <p>It uses a bit of jQuery, because unlike psedu classes, I had to position it relatively to a container, so sibiling selectors are out. To show the finished rating system, a little script is used. It adds a class to the parent, so that the SVG can change the fill. </p>
  <div class="rating">
  <fieldset class="rating-fieldset">
    <span><input type="checkbox" id="star5" class="rating-checkbox" value="5" name="star" /><label class="full" for="star5" title="Awesome - 5 stars">
                                                        <svg role="img" aria-label="rating">
                                                            <use xlink:href="#star"></use>
                                                        </svg>
                                                    </label>
    <input type="checkbox" id="star4half" class="rating-checkbox" value="4.5" name="star" /><label class="half" for="star4half" title="Pretty good - 4.5 stars" name="star">    <svg role="img" aria-label="rating">                                                 <use xlink:href="#star"></use>                                           </svg>                                 
      </label></span>
    <span> <input type="checkbox" id="star4" class="rating-checkbox" value="4" name="star" /><label class="full" for="star4" title="Pretty good - 4 stars">
                                                        <svg role="img" aria-label="rating">
                                                            <use xlink:href="#star"></use>
                                                        </svg>
                                                    </label>
    <input type="checkbox" id="star3half" class="rating-checkbox" value="3.5" name="star" /><label class="half" for="star3half" title="Meh - 3.5 stars">   <svg role="img" aria-label="rating">                                                 <use xlink:href="#star"></use>                                           </svg>                                
     </label></span>
    <span><input type="checkbox" id="star3" class="rating-checkbox" value="3" name="star" /><label class="full" for="star3" title="Meh - 3 stars" name="star">
                                                        <svg role="img" aria-label="rating">
                                                            <use xlink:href="#star"></use>
                                                        </svg>
                                                    </label>
    <input type="checkbox" id="star2half" class="rating-checkbox" value="2.5" name="star" /><label class="half" for="star2half" title="Kinda bad - 2.5 stars">   <svg role="img" aria-label="rating">                                                 <use xlink:href="#star"></use>                                           </svg>                                  
      </label></span>
    <span><input type="checkbox" id="star2" class="rating-checkbox" value="2" name="star" /><label class="full" for="star2" title="Kinda bad - 2 stars">
                                                        <svg role="img" aria-label="rating">
                                                            <use xlink:href="#star"></use>
                                                        </svg>
                                                    </label>
    <input type="checkbox" id="star1half" class="rating-checkbox" value="1.5" name="star" /><label class="half" for="star1half" title="Meh - 1.5 stars">  <svg role="img" aria-label="rating">                                                 <use xlink:href="#star"></use>                                           </svg>                                   
      </label></span>
    <span><input type="checkbox" id="star1" class="rating-checkbox" value="1" name="star" /><label class="full" for="star1" title="Sucks big time - 1 star">
                                                        <svg role="img" aria-label="rating">
                                                            <use xlink:href="#star"></use>
                                                        </svg>
                                                    </label>
    <input type="checkbox" id="starhalf" class="rating-checkbox" value="0.5" name="star" /><label class="half" for="starhalf" title="Sucks big time - 0.5 stars">
      <svg role="img" aria-label="rating">                                                 <use xlink:href="#star"></use>                                           </svg>
      </label></span>
    <small>Rate Now</small>
  </fieldset>
</div>
  <p>One obvious enhancement would be to apply gradient to the SVG, and it is something I plan on implementing as soon as my queue clears up!</p>
</div>

<footer>
  <div class="container">
    <h3>Credit & Some more reading</h3>
    <ul>
      <li>Sara Souidan on <a href="https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/11/styling-and-animating-svgs-with-css/" target="_blank">Styling and animating SVG<a/></li>
      <li>Beautiful background gradient from <a href="https://uigradients.com/" target="_blank">uigradients.com</a></li>
    </ul>
  
  </div>
</footer>
              
            
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CSS

              
                *{
  box-sizing:border-box;
}
.rating {
  text-align: center;
  width:100%;
  border:1px solid white;
  padding:2em;
  
  input[name="star"] {
    display: none;
    width: 0;
    opacity: 0;
    margin-left: -2px;

    &:focus ~ label svg {
      fill: #f2a200;
    }

    &:checked ~ label svg {
      fill: #f2a200;
    }
  }
  span {
    display: inline-block;
    position: relative;
    float: right;
    label {
      float: right;
      cursor: pointer;

      svg {
        fill: #CCC;
        color: transparent;
        transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out;
        width: 50px;
        height: 50px;
      }

      &:hover {
        svg {
          fill: #f2a200;
        }

        ~ label {
          svg {
            fill: #f2a200;
          }

          &.half {
            svg {
              fill: #f2a200;
            }
          }
        }
      }

      &.half {
        overflow: hidden;
        position: absolute;
        width: 25px;
        svg {
          fill: none;
        }

        &:hover {
          svg {
            fill: #f2a200;
          }
        }
      }
    }

    &:hover {
      ~ span label svg {
        fill: #f2a200;
      }
    }

    &.active ~ span {
      label svg {
        fill: #f2a200;
      }
    }
  }
}

/*presentational styles*/
html{
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
}
body {
  background: #005C97;
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(to bottom, #363795, #005C97); 
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #363795, #005C97); 
  height:100%;
  color: white;
  font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;
  padding:0;
  margin:0;
}

.container {
  width: 40em;
  margin: 0 auto;
}
fieldset {
  display: inline-block;
  overflow: hidden;
  padding: 0;
  border: 0;
}

small {
  display: block;
  text-align: right;
}
h2 {
  text-align: center;
  text-transform: capitalize;
  code{
    text-transform:lowercase;
  }
}
p{
  line-height:1.5;
  margin-bottom:1em;
}
footer{
  width:100%;
  padding: 2em 0;
  background: darken(#363795, 5%);
  
  a{
    color: #fefefe;
    transition: color .2s ease-in;
    
    &:hover{
      color:#cbb4d4;
    }
  }
  h3{
    text-transform: capitalize;
  }
}


              
            
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JS

              
                $(document).ready(function() {
  var ratingElem = $('.rating input[name="star"]');

  ratingElem.change(function() {
    if (this.checked) {
      $(this).parent().addClass("active");
    }
  });
});

              
            
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