Whe posting email addresses on a web page, use encoded characters rather than the actual email address. Browsers can interpret the characters but most spam harvester bots cannot.
Paste this code into Notepad and save as email_ecode.html
Then use it to generate encoded email address links:
Edit the smily to: : D (colonD) with no space between)
<html>
<head>
<title>Advanced Email Link Generator with Anti-Spam Encoder</title>
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">BODY {margin-left:0; margin-right:0; margin-top:0;}</STYLE>
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
.Verdana-11pxFF0000n {font:normal 11px Verdana, sans-serif; color:#FF0000}
.Verdana-11pxF0F0F0b {font:bold 11px Verdana, sans-serif; color:#F0F0F0}
.Verdana-11px000000n {font:normal 11px Verdana, sans-serif; color:#000000}
.Verdana-11pxb {font:bold 11px Verdana, sans-serif}
.Verdana-11pxn {font:normal 11px Verdana, sans-serif}
</STYLE>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
// Update the generated link form fields:
function UpdateLinks() {
if(document.aelgwase.addy.value.indexOf('@') == -1) {
alert('Required:\nEmail "To:" Address\n\nFormat:\nname@domain.com');
document.aelgwase.html.value = '';
document.aelgwase.text.value = '';
return false;
}
var s = UpdateHTML();
document.aelgwase.html.value = s;
s = UpdateText();
document.aelgwase.text.value = s;
return true;
}
// Generate the HTML link:
function UpdateHTML() {
var s = GenerateURL();
s = '<a href="' + s + '">';
if(document.aelgwase.link.value.search(/\w/) != -1) {
var ss = document.aelgwase.link.value;
if((ss.indexOf('@') > -1) && (document.aelgwase.anti.checked == true)) { ss = EncodeString(ss); }
s = s + ss;
}
else { s = s + '[IMAGE]'; }
s = s + '</a>';
return s;
}
// Generate the text link:
function UpdateText() {
var s = GenerateURL();
return s;
}
// Generate the URL:
function GenerateURL() {
var s = document.aelgwase.addy.value.replace(/ /g,'');
s = 'mailto:' + s;
if(document.aelgwase.anti.checked == true) { s = EncodeString(s); }
var first = true;
if(document.aelgwase.cc.value.indexOf('@') > -1) {
s = s + '?CC=';
first = false;
var ss = document.aelgwase.cc.value.replace(/ /g,'');
ss = ss.replace(/\"/g,'%22');
if(document.aelgwase.anti.checked == true) { ss = EncodeString(ss); }
s = s + ss;
}
if(document.aelgwase.bcc.value.indexOf('@') > -1) {
if(first == true) { s = s + '?BCC='; }
else { s = s + '&BCC='; }
first = false;
var ss = document.aelgwase.bcc.value.replace(/ /g,'');
ss = ss.replace(/\"/g,'%22');
if(document.aelgwase.anti.checked == true) { ss = EncodeString(ss); }
s = s + ss;
}
if(document.aelgwase.sub.value.search(/\w/) != -1) {
if(first == true) { s = s + '?Subject='; }
else { s = s + '&Subject='; }
first = false;
var ss = document.aelgwase.sub.value.replace(/\%/g,'%25');
ss = ss.replace(/ /g,'%20');
ss = ss.replace(/\"/g,'%22');
ss = ss.replace(/\&/g,'');
ss = ss.replace(/\;/g,'%3B');
ss = ss.replace(/\=/g,'');
ss = ss.replace(/\?/g,'');
ss = ss.replace(/\+/g,'%2B');
s = s + ss;
}
if(document.aelgwase.body.value.search(/\w/) != -1) {
if(first == true) { s = s + '?body='; }
else { s = s + '&body='; }
first = false;
var ss = document.aelgwase.body.value.replace(/\%/g,'%25');
ss = ss.replace(/ /g,'%20');
ss = ss.replace(/\"/g,'%22');
ss = ss.replace(/\&/g,'');
ss = ss.replace(/\;/g,'%3B');
ss = ss.replace(/\=/g,'');
ss = ss.replace(/\?/g,'');
ss = ss.replace(/\+/g,'%2B');
ss = ss.replace(/\n/g,'%10');
ss = ss.replace(/\r/g,'%13');
s = s + ss;
}
return s;
}
// Encoded a string with the ISO-Latin-1 codeset:
function EncodeString(s) {
var ss = '';
for( i = 0; i < s.length; i++) {
var fs = s.charCodeAt(i);
ss = ss + '&#' + fs + ';';
}
return ss;
}
// Display the generated HTML code in a popup window:
function DemoGeneratedLink() {
var pDemo = window.open('','','height=200,width=400,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes');
pDemo.document.writeln('<html><body bgcolor="white" onBlur="self.close()">');
pDemo.document.writeln('<TABLE WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0">');
pDemo.document.writeln('<TR><TD WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE"><br><br><br>');
pDemo.document.writeln(document.aelgwase.html.value);
pDemo.document.writeln('<br> <form><input type=button onClick="self.close()" value="Close Window"><\/form>');
pDemo.document.writeln('</TD></TR></TABLE>');
pDemo.document.writeln('<\/body><\/html>');
}
//-->
</script>
</head>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#009BE6" VLINK="#009BE6" TOPMARGIN=0 LEFTMARGIN=0>
<br>
<br>
<TABLE WIDTH="500" BORDER="0">
<tr>
<td align="left">
<TABLE align="center" width="450">
<TR>
<TD align="left"><FONT CLASS=Verdana-11pxb>E-Mail Link Encoder<BR><BR></FONT></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<td align="left"><FONT CLASS=Verdana-11pxn>Use this tool to generate standard E-Mail Links for your web pages.<BR><BR></td></tr>
</table></td></tr></table>
<BR><BR>
<TABLE WIDTH="500" BORDER="0">
<tr>
<td align="left">
<TABLE align="center" width="450">
<TR>
<TD align="left"><FONT CLASS=Verdana-11pxb>Instructions<BR><BR></FONT></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD align="left"><FONT CLASS=Verdana-11pxn>Fill in only those form fields that are applicable for your application.</FONT></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE></td></tr></table>
<BR><BR>
<TABLE WIDTH="500" BORDER="0">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<form name="aelgwase">
<table width="450" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td align="right"><FONT CLASS=Verdana-11pxn>E-mail To: Address:</FONT></td>
<td><input type="text" name="addy" size="28" onChange="UpdateLinks()"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right"><FONT CLASS=Verdana-11pxn>E-mail CC: Address:</FONT></td>
<td><input type="text" name="cc" size="28" onChange="UpdateLinks()"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right"><FONT CLASS=Verdana-11pxn>E-mail BCC: Address:</FONT></td>
<td><input type="text" name="bcc" size="28" onChange="UpdateLinks()"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right"><FONT CLASS=Verdana-11pxn>E-mail Subject:</FONT></td>
<td><input type="text" name="sub" size="28" onChange="UpdateLinks()"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right" valign="top"><FONT CLASS=Verdana-11pxn>E-mail Body Text:</FONT></td>
<td><textarea name="body" cols="25" rows="5" wrap="soft" onChange="UpdateLinks()"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right"><FONT CLASS=Verdana-11pxn>Employ Anti-Spam Encoding?</FONT></td>
<td><input type="checkbox" name="anti" value="yes" onClick="UpdateLinks()"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right"><FONT CLASS=Verdana-11pxn>Your Text Link:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="link" size="28" onChange="UpdateLinks()"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="left"><FONT CLASS=Verdana-11pxb><br>Generated Links:</FONT><BR><BR><FONT CLASS=Verdana-11pxn>The Generated HTML Link can be copied and pasted into your HTML web page or HTML email.<br><br>Generated Plain Text Link:</FONT><br>
<input type="text" name="text" size="50"><br>
<FONT CLASS=Verdana-11pxn>Generated HTML Link:<br>
<input type="text" name="html" size="50"><br>
(<a href="javascript:DemoGeneratedLink()">Preview in popup window</a>)</FONT><br><br>
<input type="button" value="Update Generated Links" onClick="UpdateLinks()">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</td></tr></table>
<br><br>
</body>
</html>