Deverill Posted September 20, 2003 Posted September 20, 2003 I recently found a Javascript that has cut my spam mail down dramatically. Unfortunately I don't remember where I saw it (probably in a TCH forum!) but I thought it would be a good addition here in the tutorials section. The basic idea is that Javascript builds the link on the browser end in a way that spam searchers can't see it but regular folks can click on it and activate their normal email mechanisms just like with a mailto tag. Spam emails dropped a lot about 1-2 weeks after I implemented it. The code below is set for my email address "webmaster@jimscomputing.com" so make sure you edit it accordingly. To use it just go to a place in your website where you want an email link, or have one now, and replace the "<a href " with the script below. It will show up in your document as the actual email address and you can put text before and/or after the <script> and </script> tags to make the address show up in a sentence like "Contact us at..." ><script language="JavaScript"> user = "webmaster"; domain = "jimscomputing.com"; document.write('<a href=\"mailto:' + user + '@' + domain + '\">'); document.write(user + '@' + domain + '</a>'); </script>
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