Trick to hide email address smartly on a webpage to stop spam

Protecting emails from spamming is a tough task. Scraping email data is usually a great trick to get huge lists of working emails from a search engine, but how do we stop it?
Here is one of the ways to hide your email address from being scraped.

CSS

mail::after{content:attr(dom)}
mail::before{content:attr(me) "\0040"}

HTML

1	`<mail` `me="my_safe_email"` `dom="gmail.com"></mail>`

so final code will look like:

<style>
mail::after{content:attr(dom)}
mail::before{content:attr(me) "\0040"}
</style>
<mail me="myemail" dom="gmail.com"></mail>

See it in action

Posted

June 15, 2018

Internet, Tools

Harshvardhan Malpani

Tags:

hide email, obsfucate email, spam, stop spam

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One response to “Trick to hide email address smartly on a webpage to stop spam”

Sakif AL Amin

October 25, 2018

Thanks, Harshvardhan Malpani,
It’s working in my site.

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Trick to hide email address smartly on a webpage to stop spam

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