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Managing a star rating with the StarRating widget in Yii 2

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With CSS3 and HTML5 supported now in most modern browsers, a simpler solution, using scalable vector icons, for perfect display across devices is attempted in this new [StarRating](http://demos.krajee.com/widget-details/star-rating) widget. This widget is part of the [yii2-widgets](http://demos.krajee.com/widgets) package. It requires no images or does not internally use a nested span of radios, but simple HTML5 and CSS3 features.

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Before using the plugin, read this for better controlling the widget features for your Yii2 app:

1. The widget offers many features using pure CSS to markup the star symbols and fractional ratings of any value. You can read about it at the [bootstrap-star-rating plugin page](http://plugins.krajee.com/star-rating). Ensure you have the widget dependencies covered for your environment as per the [composer.json](https://github.com/kartik-v/yii2-widgets/blob/master/composer.json).
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5. Display an unicode icon without loading bootstrap glyphicon. You can set the `glyphicon` property to false - it will display the Unicode Star symbol.

6. Using alternative icon symbols. You can use any icon font symbol that is UTF8 encoded and pass the encoded entity in `symbol` property.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos
Tags: icon, jquery, plugin, rating, star, symbol, widget, yii2
Written by: Kartik V
Last updated by: Kartik V
Created on: May 8, 2014
Last updated: 10 years ago
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