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Old 27-Jun-2004, 15:37
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Hiding an email address from SPAM bots in a <FORM> tag.

I have a form on my website that is sent to me when submitted. In the source I had to put my email address in to accomplish this. I've been using the encryption method found here, but that doesn't play so nicely in the <FORM> tag.

My source looks like this currently:
HTML Code:

<form action="webadmin@example.com">

Does anyone know how do something different so that the form still functions, but that my email address isn't able to be picked up so readily?
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I have a form on my website that is sent to me when submitted. In the source I had to put my email address in to accomplish this. I've been using the encryption method found here, but that doesn't play so nicely in the <FORM> tag.

My source looks like this currently:
HTML Code:

<form action="webadmin@example.com">

Does anyone know how do something different so that the form still functions, but that my email address isn't able to be picked up so readily?
Use my email encryptor at http://wildeware.com under utilities. Just type in the entire form tag, copy & paste the javascript into your page and you're done.
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Old 10-Aug-2004, 16:26
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Instead of inputting your email address as the form action, send the form information to a php/asp/jsp/perl/etc file to process the information and send the email to you. That way your email address won't show up in the html source. For example:
Code:
<form action="sendemail.php">
Google php email form and you'll find plenty of free scripts.
 
 
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