jQuery Star Rating Plugin

With most jQuery UI widgets, you simply give a container element, and some options, and it will create all the necessary DOM elements. This is not quite possible with this plugin.

What I propose is the addition of a "stars" option, which indicates how many stars to display. Then, if the radios aren't already created, it would create them. This allows all the options for the widget to be defined all in one place (javascript, rather than html and javascript)

I was about to switch libraries when I noticed you may be setting up a repo here. A big +1 if this is the case. GitHub makes it easy for us to keep things up-to-date via Composer.

The package is not registered in Bower registry and it's name is conflicting with star-rating from cmartinezv https://github.com/cmartinezv/star-rating/blob/master/bower.json

Also I couldn't install with bower install fyneworks/star-rating and bower install git://github.com/fyneworks/star-rating, in both cases there's an error:

bower star-rating#*            ECMDERR Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads git://github.com/fyneworks/star-rating.git=git://github.com/fyneworks/star-rating.git", exit code of #128

Additional error details:
fatal: remote error: 
  fyneworks/star-rating.git=git://github.com/fyneworks/star-rating is not a valid repository name

Hello,

This project has been part of eLabFTW since quite some time now! Thanks for putting it out there. I'll probably have to write something new when jQuery goes out the door but for now it does its job well :)

Please consider merging these few minor cosmetic changes, it's just to make the README more readable and the LICENSE file will help GitHub and others figuring out the usage conditions.

For those using jquery < 1.9 such as symfony 2 installs using the mopa bootstrap bundle, the function addBack does not exist rendering the plugin un-useable. I've made a change to use the function andSelf which makes the plugin backward compatible and forward compatible as andSelf is an alias to addBack in jquery >= 1.9.

Hi,

We've recently discovered an issue when using the callback function on the "cancel" element, where it was impossible to determine which rating had changed.

This pull request fixes this issue, and also includes a bower.json file, which we use in our setup. The last patch in this pull request is a simple indentation fix.

In some situations, this.title is unavailable, however a fallback to this.value was not specified for the aria-label. This would occasionally result in inconsistencies between the anchor tag's title attribute and the parent div's aria label.

'cancelValue' is not working. Using callback the value is always undefined and submitting the form (without ajax) posts nothing instead of cancelValue!

Why are you initializing plugin from inside the plugin? I'm referring to this line: https://github.com/fyneworks/star-rating/blob/master/jquery.rating.js#L404

This means users shouldn't use class="star" on input elements if they want to initialize plugin themselves otherwsie plugin will initialize twice and cause various bugs such as callback not executing anymore, etc.

Here's a link to the original issue I posted a minute ago on gCode: https://code.google.com/p/jquery-star-rating-plugin/issues/detail?id=140&thanks=140&ts=1388264957

I am sorry, but I didn't figure out how to link your JS to jsfidle. Please read through my issue, I really need this. BTW: I have uploaded the .js, but then it still didn't work, because it couldn't find the images..

What steps will reproduce the problem? HTML:

<input class="star" type="radio" name="rating" value="1" title="Worst"  disabled="disabled" />
<input class="star" type="radio" name="rating" value="2" title="Bad"    disabled="disabled" />
<input class="star" type="radio" name="rating" value="3" title="OK"       disabled="disabled" />
<input class="star" type="radio" name="rating" value="4" title="Good"   disabled="disabled"  checked="checked" />
<input class="star" type="radio" name="rating" value="5" title="Best"   disabled="disabled" />

<div id="edit">
    EDIT
</div>

<script>
  $( document ).ready(function() {
    $( "#edit" ).click(function() {
        $('input').rating('readOnly',false);
    });
  });
</script>

I have also tried to get rid of the script and change the DIV to this:

<div id="edit" onclick="javascript:$('input[type=radio]',this.form).rating('readOnly',false)" value="Set readOnly = false" class="">
    EDIT
</div>

But this also didn't work. It also only displays the "cancel" button, but I can't select any of the stars.

INSPECT ELEMENT classes on the <div role="text"> as I have 5 radio boxes, where the 4th one has selected attribute. Original

1-4 star-rating rater-0 star star-rating-applied star-rating-readonly star-rating-on
5 star-rating rater-0 star star-rating-applied star-rating-readonly

After clicking the DIV

1-4 star-rating rater-0 star star-rating-applied star-rating-on
5 star-rating rater-0 star star-rating-applied

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I was expecting that clicking the edit div would make the rating active again so I could change the value. But, it somehow glitches. When I click the #edit div the "cancel rating" button is displayed, but I am unable to click on any of the stars. The first screen shot is what I see right after clicking the DIV. The second is a screenshot of how it looks like when I place my mouse over the second star. For some reason Mac doesn't put the mouse to the screenshot, but it is right over the star.. Please, do you have any ideas or tips on what could be causing this issue? Right now the only solution for me is to reload the page and load new rating when the user clicks the edit button, but I really don't want to do that.

What version of the plugin/jQuery are you using?

PLUGIN VERSION: v4.11 JQUERY VERSION: 2.0.3 BROWSER(S) VERSION(S): Chrome 31.0.1650.63

Feel free to provide any additional information below.

I hope this makes some sense. I really don't understand what could be causing the problem here. Since I am doing something so simple. If you would require any ideational information feel free to ask for it. I am looking forward to your reply. Sincerely James B.