Last Updated: Sunday, August 28, 2005
This form will allow you to encode your e-mail address through the use of Character Entities, transforming your ascii email address into its equivalent decimal entity. Simply enter your regular e-mail address in the first text box, click the encode button, and then highlight and copy the resulting code produced in the second text box. This encoded e-mail address can be read and translated back into its original ascii text by almost any web browser without any further action on your part. Just replace all instances of your e-mail address on your pages with the code, and you won't have to worry about spam lists.
For example:
On the visible web page:
"For more information, send email to [email-masked]."
In the source code for the web page, the above should look like this:
"For more information, send email to <A HREF="mailto:
&#121;&#111;&#117;&#114;&#110;&#097;&#109;&#101;&#064;&#100;&#111;&#109;&#097;&#105;&#110;&#046;&#099;&#111;&#109;">
&#121;&#111;&#117;&#114;&#110;&#097;&#109;&#101;&#064;&#100;&#111;&#109;&#097;&#105;&#110;&#046;&#099;&#111;&#109;
</A>"
This email address is unencoded - testing the spam trapping in Google's Gmail:
mailto:[email-masked]?subject=RE: Email Address Encoder

Regular E-mail Address:

Encoded E-mail Address:

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