Only fill 60 percent star using css width

Question

When I am try style=width:60% to .rating class, gold color should be fill up only 3 stars and rest of stars should be blank but it does not work. Please help me what is my mistake ?

My html code:

<div class="star">
   <div class="rating" style="width:60%">
      <span>&#9734;</span>
      <span>&#9734;</span>
      <span>&#9734;</span>
      <span>&#9734;</span>
      <span>&#9734;</span> 
   </div>
</div>

My css code:

.star{ width:200px; position: relative;color: #bdbdbd;}

.rating span
 {   
    font-size:30px;
    margin-left:-4px;
    white-space: nowrap;
    overflow: hidden;
 }

.rating  span:before { 
 content:"\2605";
 position: absolute;
 color:gold;
 }

CHECK fiddle link

Answer 1

This is what I have previously used. This works quite nicely - you can even have a fraction of a star filled out...

https://jsfiddle.net/4qqspqxh/

.ratings {
  position: relative;
  vertical-align: middle;
  display: inline-block;
  color: #b1b1b1;
  overflow: hidden;
}

.full-stars{
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  color: #fde16d;
}

.empty-stars:before,
.full-stars:before {
  content: "\2605\2605\2605\2605\2605";
  font-size: 14pt;
}

.empty-stars:before {
  -webkit-text-stroke: 1px #848484;
}

.full-stars:before {
  -webkit-text-stroke: 1px orange;
}

/* Webkit-text-stroke is not supported on firefox or IE */
/* Firefox */
@-moz-document url-prefix() {
  .full-stars{
    color: #ECBE24;
  }
}
/* IE */
<!--[if IE]>
  .full-stars{
    color: #ECBE24;
  }
<![endif]-->

<div class="ratings">
  <div class="empty-stars"></div>
  <div class="full-stars" style="width:70%"></div>
</div>