Spam Prevention/Reduction - Contact Form?

Question

I want to add a simple Contact form to my web site so that customers can contact me easily.

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Answer 1

If you want to do a completely front-end solution I have had success recently by leaving the form action attribute blank, and populating it via a $(document).ready function. Most spambots use a browser that has javascript disabled, or are looking for hidden fields to avoid detection.

Example:

Your html would be:

and anywhere in that page you can use this to populate it.

A bot browser with no javascript will not get a form action, and they will get a 404 upon submission. Anyone with a normal browser (unless they have JS disabled for paranoid reasons) will get the normal behavior.