: Hide email adress with JavaScript I read somewhere that hiding email address behind JavaScript code, could reduce spam bots harvesting the email address. <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

@Ann8826881

Someone did research to find out what ways would help best to prevent spammers from spidering your emailaddress, and here's the results:
techblog.tilllate.com/2008/07/20/ten-methods-to-obfuscate-e-mail-addresses-compared/
Their top 3 ways, according to the results:

1. Changing the code direction with CSS

<span style="unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: rtl;">
moc.liame@sserdda
</span>


(shows up as address@email.com to regular visitors)

2. Using CSS display:none

<style type=”text/css”>
p span.displaynone { display:none; }
</style>

<p>silvanfoobar8@<span class=”displaynone”>null</span>tilllate.com</p>


3. ROT13 Encryption

ROT13 encode the e-mail address with this tool or use the str_rot13 function of PHP and decode it via Javascript.

<script type=”text/javascript”>
document.write(“
<n uers=”znvygb:fvyinasbbone10@gvyyyngr.pbz” ery=”absbyybj”>”.replace(/[a-zA-Z]/g,
function(c){
return String.fromCharCode((c<=”Z”?90:122)>=(c=c.charCodeAt(0)+13)?c:c-26);
}));
</script>Email Me</a>


Where you have to replace fvyinasbbone10@gvyyyngr.pbz with a rot13-encoded version of your mail.

So yes, it will help but you might as well just go for one of the two CSS solutions, they're much easier to implement.

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