Comments on: Accessibly Cloak Email Addresses with jQuery

By: andy

andy — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:51:19 +0000

George, good call, thanks! I’ll take a look next chance I get!

By: George

George — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:47:27 +0000

Hi andy, I use this script alot, but noticed it doesn't work with email addresses with more than 1 dot. I've improvised.


$(".emailCloak").each(function(){
	var ats, dots, address, i, foundDots;
	ats = [ ' at ', ' (at) ', ' [at] ' ];
	dots = [ ' dot ', ' (dot) ', ' [dot] ' ];
	address = $(this).html();
	for ( i = 0; i < ats.length; i++ ) {
		address = address.replace(ats[i], '@');
	}
	for ( i = 0; i < dots.length; i++ ) {
		foundDots = [];
		foundDots = address.split(dots[i]);
		for(var j=1; j' + address + '');
});

(ps. this probably could have been done with a regex /g function, but I'm no good with regex).

By: andy

andy — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:27:14 +0000

@Andy I just updated the example to use 1.4.2 and it’s working well:

http://theandystratton.com/examples/email-conversion.html

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:27:22 +0000

It’s been a year and a half, I tested the code and found out it doesn’t work with newer versions of jQuery, like 1.3.2 or 1.4.2. Spent a few hours to find a problem, but failed – would be great if you could rewrite it.

Thanks anyway, it worked for me for some time.

By: Beny

Beny — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:25:56 +0000

Useful. Thanx!

By: andy

andy — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:57:31 +0000

That’s great! I’m glad it was helpful, thanks for sharing, too!

By: Jeffrey Herr

Jeffrey Herr — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:29:18 +0000

Thanks for the nudge. It was easy enough, but I guess I just wanted someone to do it for me! I used this approach on a SquareSpace website. Works great, and is flexible enough for me to choose my own obfuscation patterns to further thwart spammers… Appreciate it!