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Hiding email address with CSS

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  1. Dave M. (2 comments.) says:

    Yes, but couldn’t a spambot simply load the CSS file and scan it like it scan’s regular HTML pages?

    I suspect that they don’t yet, but CSS is readable by looking at the HTML to see where the CSS is included from.

    Just a thought…

  2. Sunny (1 comments.) says:

    Also this is not copy-and-pastable.

  3. Mathias Bynens (5 comments.) says:

    I do not mean to link-spam you, but I made a post about a PHP function that obfuscates email addresses twice — the characters are converted into entities, and then the address gets reversed through this CSS method. The Double Dutch of Email Obfuscation, so to speak. ;)

  4. John Keys (1 comments.) says:

    Unfortunately, not only e-mail harvesters will have a problem with this trick – it displays nonsense in Mac OS X’s Safari web browser. Not recommended.

  5. Mardeg (1 comments.) says:

    I tested the method in my link in a few browsers, including Safari. It uses CSS to shrink a generated random-text logo down to resemble normal text.

  6. Grez says:

    I usually hide the email with javascript. Works pretty fine.

    Regards
    Grez

  7. Niranjan (1 comments.) says:

    There’s almost no point in putting much effort in hiding your email address. As Grez pointed, javascript will do the trick easily, however a good antispam is a must. Graylisting is a very handy solution to huge amount of spam traffic.
    Thanks,
    Niranjan



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