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Encode Email Addresses to Keep Hidden from Spammers
Robots designed to collect email addresses scan Web sites to obtain your or your clients email address. To protect addresses, encode them using character entities while maintaining their functionality.
For example, to have the following text:
"Send email to lastname.num@osu.edu."
The HTML code would need to be as follows:
Send email to <A HREF="mailto:las
tname#@o
su.edu"</A>
To obtain the code that you need for an email address, simply type the address in the first field in the form below and select the Encode button. The encoding version will then appear in the other text box.
For more information about using Character Entities see the W3C HTML Reference Specification on Character Entities.