Making email addresses safe from bots on a webpage?

Question

When placing email addresses on a webpage do you place them as text like this:

joe.somebody@company.com

or use a clever trick to try and fo

Answer 1

HTML:

JavaScript, using jQuery:

// match all a-elements with "--mailto--" somehere in the class property
$("a[class*='--mailto--']").each(function ()
{
    /*
    for each of those elements use a regular expression to pull
    out the data you need to construct a valid e-mail adress
    */
    var validEmailAdress = this.className.match();

    $(this).click(function ()
    {
        window.location = validEmailAdress;
    });
});