Email Defuscator

About

This is a very simple plugin that allows you to hide email addresses from spambots while still being accessible. Visitors with JavaScript enabled browsers will see the email addresses correctly, while those without JavaScript will be provided with instructions for retrieving your email address. Spambots will see this same information, but won't know that it's an email address.

Obfuscate

For this plugin to defuscate email addresses, you first have to obfuscate them. This is very easy. Instead of writing name@example.com, you write:
name(put the 'at' sign here)example.com

What goes into the paranthese is up to you. You can even do:
name(replace this paranthese with the 'at' sign to get my email address)example.com

The Defuscator will recognize the obfuscated email address and defuscate it. This also works on mailto links such as:
<a href="mailto:name(put the 'at' sign here)example.com">Email me</a>

Defuscate

Include the plugin and run the .defuscate() function on the elements containing obfuscated email addresses:
$('p').defuscate();

You can also set it to not create mailto links, like this:
$('p').defuscate({link: false});

It will defuscate multiple email addresses in the given element(s).

Credits

Joakim Stai wrote it and forgot about it.
Ariel Flesler contributed and made Joakim remember to finish it.

Disclaimer

Although this works with most spambots, it's not bullet proof protection. A spambot that can run JavaScript would be able to see your email address. But if you're that paranoid of someone stealing your email address, you shouldn't put it out on the web in the first place.

^{Terms of use: FYI, WFM. YMMV, UAYOR, IANAL. IOW TINLA AFAIC. OWTTE. DQMOT. MTFBWU. EOM :)}

Download

To download, please use this release instead of the one listed below:
http://jquery.com/plugins/node/627