Hide Email Address from Bots - Keep mailto:

Question

tl;dr

Hide email address from bots without using scripts and maintain mailto: functionality. Method must also support screen-readers.

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Answer 1

The one method I found effective is using it with css like below:

myemail@ignore-domain.com

and then write a javascript to remove the ignoreme- word from the href="mailto:..." attribute with regex. This will hide email from bot as it will append ignore- word before real domain and this will work on screen reader and when user clicks on the link custom js function will remove the ignore- word from href attribute so it will open the real email.

This method has been working very effectively for me till date. you can read more on this - http://techblog.tilllate.com/2008/07/20/ten-methods-to-obfuscate-e-mail-addresses-compared/