I want to protect my e-mail address on webpages.
But I don't know JavaScript and PHP. I know only HTML and CSS.
So, please help me how to protect my email address with CSS only.
I want to protect my e-mail address on webpages.
But I don't know JavaScript and PHP. I know only HTML and CSS.
So, please help me how to protect my email address with CSS only.
It's very simple. You can protect your email address with only HTML & CSS. You don't need to know about PHP or Java script. Try below code.
Simple HTML and CSS code:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Protect e-mail with only css</title>
<style type="text/css">
.e-mail:before {
content: attr(data-website) "\0040" attr(data-user);
unicode-bidi: bidi-override;
direction: rtl;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<span class="e-mail" data-user="nohj" data-website="moc.liamg"></span>
</body>
</html>
Output of above code:
jhon@gmail.com
Please note:
Here I'm just used two extra attributes.
1) data-user
write your e-mail id user name in reverse.
2) data-website
write your e-mail id website in reverse.
Try this code:
.e-mail:before {
content: "\006a\0068\006f\006e\0040\0067\006d\0061\0069\006c\002e\0063\006f\006d";
}
<span class="e-mail"></span>
This is just the email encoded in hexadecimal.
As you likely know: Obfuscation techniques can't be foolproof and harvester bots will continue to improve. There are a number of arguments against obfuscation.
That being said, here are some additional techniques to the rather interesting ones you already mentioned.
HTML techniques:
Using html comment signs or substituting html entities has some years ago already been shown to be a pretty weak approach.
Using an image instead of text is a pain for most users, including the non-visually impaired as they can't cut and paste. It works well though.
One interesting pure HTML approach that allows for using a hyperlink was suggested a while back.
<a href="mailto:jhonnotspam@gmail.com?subject=EMAIL ADDRESS NEEDS EDITING&body=Please remove the text 'notspam' from the address before sending your email.">Email me.</a>
CSS techniques: These are of course not fool proof either. Besides what you've mentioned already:
Using CSS display:none is also useful. Bots that simply strip out style tags will include the hidden text in the harvested address.
jhon<span style="display:none">-anti-bot-bit</span>@gmail.com.
A web icon font could be used to pull in an @ icon and it's possible to do this in a way that won't trip up screen readers. I've not seen a web icon font with an @ icon for obvious reasons, but this would work.
Update: Font Awesome now has an @ icon. Maybe someone suggested it after seeing this post ;-).
One of the simple and effecting ways of embedding emails in html is by using hex values! for example hex value for john@smith.me is:
%6A%6F%68%6E%40%73%6D%69%74%68%2E%6D%65
and you can use the following tag in your HTML Code
<a href="mailto:%6A%6F%68%6E%40%73%6D%69%74%68%2E%6D%65">email me</a>
This is a really simple and effective way of embedding email in a webpage.
you have hided the "maito:" and the email in this way.
you can use this tool to generate the %64 hex code
you can also use this tool to generate the hex code
You can combine the two answers above (Ans1 & Ans2) to make the mailto
works with the css for usability.
<style type="text/css">
.e-mail:before {
content: attr(data-website) "\0040" attr(data-user);
unicode-bidi: bidi-override;
direction: rtl;
}
</style>
<a href="mailto:%6A%6F%68%6E%40%67%6D%61%69%6C%2E%63%6F%6D">
<span class="e-mail" data-user="nhoj" data-website="moc.liamg"></span>
</a>
You can use Font Awesome:
In <head>
:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
In <body>
:
<p>john<i class="fa fa-at"></i>hotmail.com</p>
I would recommend using JavaScript if possible over CSS and JavaScript as it can manipulate the dom. Easily you could do it with code like
<div onclick="document.write('joe@' + 'joemaller.com')">Email Me</div>
This a simple but not ideal solution.
JFiddle; http://jsfiddle.net/yFKUD/
Use the reCAPTCHA Mailhide API
Mail hide using api
Use encoder Formate
Encode site url to convert data email
Hide email using CSS trick (direction property)
Demo
Scramble the email - While coding HTML, jumble and write the email address in reverse direction. (a@b.com should be written as moc.b@a). We can then use CSS stylesheet to reverse the email address againwhen rendering. Here's the sample HTML code with CSS.
<style type="text/css">
.backwards {
unicode-bidi:bidi-override;
direction: rtl;
}
</style>
<span class="backwards">moc.b@a</span>
If someone copies your email address, it will available in the reverse direction. Would not work on older browsers.
How to hide your email address from spammers with JavaScript
Let's look at more advanced methods that use javascipt to hide the email (name@domain.com). Remember to use noscript tags since some users prefer to disable javascript in browsers:
- Basic Email Script
<script language=JavaScript>
<!--
document.write("name" + "@" + "domain.com");
//--> </script>
2. Basic Mailto: Email Script with Link Text
<script language=JavaScript>
<!--
var user = "name";
var host = "domain.com";
var link = user + "@" + host;
document.write("<a hre" + "f=ma" + "ilto:" + user + "@" + host + ">" + link + "</a>");
//--> </script>
3. Inline JavaScript
<a href="#" onclick="JavaScript:window.location='mailto:'+'name'+'@'+'domain'+'.com'" >Send me an email</a>
- External JavaScript file
<script language="JavaScript" src="email-encoding.js"></script>
The external javascript contains the code mentioned in 2 above.
To disable people to copy it try like:
span.email {
-webkit-touch-callout: none;
-webkit-user-select: none;
-khtml-user-select: none;
-moz-user-select: none;
-ms-user-select: none;
user-select: none;
}
And HTML:
<span class="email">jack@gmail.com</span>
JSFIDDLE
And to protect against bots use CSS Codedirection:
<span style="unicode-bidi:bidi-override; direction: rtl;">
moc.elpmaxe@zyx
</span>
I used for some time a similar JavaScript technique that allowed the "mailto" functionality while keeping the HTML valid :
HTML :
<a href="http://www.domain.com" class="js-contact">user</a>
JavaScript (small jQuery plugin)
// mailto anti-spam
;(function($) {
$.fn.mailTo = function() {
this.each(function() {
var user = $(this).html() || false,
domain = $(this).attr('href')
.replace('http://www.', '')
.replace('www.', '')
.replace('http://', '')
.replace('/', '') || false;
if (user && domain) {
$(this).html(user + '@' + domain).attr('href', 'mailto:' + user + '@' + domain);
}
});
return this;
};
})(jQuery);
Usage
// protect inline e-mails
$('.js-contact').mailTo();
http://codepen.io/ced-anamorphik/pen/QwVrKZ
But lately Google Chrome displayed a phishing warning on the website. As this is not entirely wrong (technically the link is spoofed indeed), is there another simple solution to this ?
Flexbox allows you to change the order of items inside a containing element, we can use this to separate and reorder parts of our email address in the html but present them to the user as a legible whole.
div {
display: flex;
flex-direction: row-reverse;
justify-content: flex-end;
}
<div>
<span>example.com</span>
<span>@</span>
<span>george</span>
<span>Email me at the following address: </span>
</div>
Here we use flex-direction: row-reverse
to reverse the order of the elements.
A scammer could probably work this out if he tried hard, all he has to do is reverse the elements to recreate the address. For a more thorough attempt we can specify the order manually.
div {
display: flex;
}
<div>
<span style="order: 3">@</span>
<span style="order: 4">example.com</span>
<span style="order: 1">Email me at the following address: </span>
<span style="order: 2">user</span>
</div>
Here we use order
to specify our own order so a simple reverse cannot be used.
Unfortunately doing any of this breaks copy/paste so your user will have to type out the address, but it is better than receiving correspondence from another Nigerian prince. Use this in conjunction with other techniques for a truly bulletproof email address.