Hiding E-mail Addresses Using CSS

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Have you ever had the need of putting your e-mail address up on public domain, but you’re afraid of spam bots harvesting your email address?

This is a cool CSS trick that you can use to prevent spam bots from harvesting your e-mail address.

gro.natluap@luap

Looks pretty normal right? But view the source and this is what you get.

<span style="unicode-bidi:bidi-override; direction: rtl;">gro.natluap@luap</span>

Spam bots would only be able to harvest the gro.natluap@luap which obviously isn’t a valid e-mail address.

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  • saintis kreko on Mar 03, 2005 at 4:05 am

    look like it is a good idea .. never thought of this even though i know abt the bidi function (which is not supported by all browser still in use) .. this need to be proven first .. have u tried ?

    ps: i'll be quoting this soon .. (i got no trackback, so inform manually lah..;-) )

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  • Jolene on Mar 03, 2005 at 5:13 am

    gro? =p

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  • LcF on Mar 03, 2005 at 6:00 am

    Cool! Fast and simple!

    Thanks for the tip. :)

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  • Jolene on Mar 04, 2005 at 10:41 am

    Told you already, .org's are so dodgy. That's why I love .net's.

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  • DR KUNANATHAN on Jun 28, 2010 at 8:14 am

    Received volvo satisfaction survey for my volvo 960(s90) WGK 6168 at below site www.volvo-css.com/voa/my. Unable to access to this site. Please assist.

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