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.
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 ;-).
To disable people to copy it try like:
And HTML:
JSFIDDLE
And to protect against bots use CSS Codedirection:
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
This a simple but not ideal solution.
JFiddle; http://jsfiddle.net/yFKUD/
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
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
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:
Output of above code:
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.You can combine the two answers above (Ans1 & Ans2) to make the
mailto
works with the css for usability.