Hiding email address with CSS

Comments

1. Dave M. says:

   3/1/2005 at 6:54 pm

   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 says:

   3/1/2005 at 8:12 pm

   Also this is not copy-and-pastable.

3. Mathias Bynens says:

   3/2/2005 at 7:34 am

   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 says:

   3/2/2005 at 11:39 pm

   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 says:

   11/3/2005 at 11:59 pm

   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:

   1/8/2008 at 6:49 pm

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

   Regards
   Grez

7. Niranjan says:

   3/12/2008 at 1:41 am

   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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