The idea here was to make this thing as simple as possible to add as many stars as you want without having to write out some long crazy code to make this happen. I'm sure I could simplify this a little more, I'll work on that later. For now, let's get into implementation of the stars.

The first part of the system is the HTML:

The first span tag is for the "Status" or what the stars/images represent. The other one is the information that will be displayed .

NEXT! The rating stars themselves:

If you want to add more stars, just simply add another anchor to the list and increase it's ID to keep track of it's "rating"

NEXT! Let's add some style:

To change the "Stars" to whatever image you want to use, change the background "url" image location in the "#rateMe .on" and "#rateMe a" styles.

NEXT! Include the script and your are done!

This script can be added anywhere on the page. You can   DOWNLOAD IT HERE.

Inside the script you will see a function at the bottom that say's "sendRate()". That is where you can put any random javascript, ajax, form submission etc. That will actually do something with the rating data once the user selects a rating.

Here is a working version: