django-starfield 1.0.post2

A no-frills Django form widget for rating stars

Description

This is a simple widget rendering so-called rating stars as input for an integer field. It is based solely on CSS 3, as laid out by Martin Ivanov.

This is different from other star rating applications in that it provides only a widget returning its selction to any IntegerField. It is not a complete rating application, just a presentational widget for integer input. It is also different in that it depends only on CSS3, without any JavaScript.

In contrast to others (and to the original work credited above), this widget also works on browsers that do not support CSS (like text-mode browsers). In that case, it renders as basic radio buttons with numbers.

Usage

Just add the Stars widget to any IntegerField in a Django form.

from django import forms
from django_starfield import Stars

class StarsExampleForm(forms.Form):
    rating = forms.IntegerField(widget=Stars)

The following aspects are configurable, both in the Django settings and when creating the widget (by passing an argument to Stars):

Aspect	Format	Default	Setting name	Argument
Number of stars	integer	5	STARFIELD_STARS	stars
Character used as star	hexadecimal codepoint	2605	STARFIELD_CODEPOINT	codepoint
Colour of stars	HTML colour	#f5b301	STARFIELD_COLOUR	colour

Please note that some browsers render some Unicode characters, especially emojis, as images, so changing the font colour will not work.