Star Burst
A 5-point star draws itself in via stroke-dasharray when selected — premium choice for ratings, favourites, and priority radios.
Star Burst the 5th of 18 designs in the 18 CSS Radio Button Designs collection. The design is implemented in pure CSS — no JavaScript required. Copy the HTML and CSS panels below into your project. Because the demo is pure CSS, it works in any framework or templating engine you happen to use. The design honours prefers-reduced-motion and uses real semantic markup, so it ships accessibility-ready out of the box.
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The code
<fieldset class="crb-star">
<legend class="crb-sr">Priority</legend>
<label
><input type="radio" name="crb-star" /><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" aria-hidden="true">
<polygon points="12,2 15,9 22,9 17,14 19,21 12,17 5,21 7,14 2,9 9,9" /></svg
>Low</label
>
<label
><input type="radio" name="crb-star" checked /><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" aria-hidden="true">
<polygon points="12,2 15,9 22,9 17,14 19,21 12,17 5,21 7,14 2,9 9,9" /></svg
>Medium</label
>
<label
><input type="radio" name="crb-star" /><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" aria-hidden="true">
<polygon points="12,2 15,9 22,9 17,14 19,21 12,17 5,21 7,14 2,9 9,9" /></svg
>High</label
>
</fieldset> .crb-star { display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 8px; border: 0; padding: 0; }
.crb-star label {
display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 10px;
font: 500 13px/1 system-ui, sans-serif; color: #cbd5e1; cursor: pointer;
}
.crb-star input { appearance: none; -webkit-appearance: none; position: absolute; opacity: 0; }
.crb-star svg {
width: 22px; height: 22px;
fill: transparent;
stroke: #444461; stroke-width: 1.5;
transition: stroke 0.3s, fill 0.4s;
}
.crb-star input:checked + svg {
stroke: #f5a623; fill: #f5a623;
filter: drop-shadow(0 0 6px rgba(245,166,35,0.5));
animation: crb-star-draw 0.6s ease-out;
}
@keyframes crb-star-draw {
0% { stroke-dasharray: 60; stroke-dashoffset: 60; fill: transparent; }
60% { stroke-dasharray: 60; stroke-dashoffset: 0; fill: transparent; }
100% { stroke-dasharray: 60; stroke-dashoffset: 0; fill: #f5a623; }
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
.crb-star,
.crb-star * {
animation: none !important;
}
}
.crb-sr {
position: absolute !important;
width: 1px;
height: 1px;
padding: 0;
margin: -1px;
overflow: hidden;
clip: rect(0, 0, 0, 0);
white-space: nowrap;
border: 0;
}