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Encoding E-mail Addresses

Many spammers use bot programs and spyder software to search Web pages and download e-mail addresses. By using our E-mail Encoder, you can scramble the e-mail addresses you publish so they become unreadable to bot programs, but can still be used by legitimate visitors who wish to contact your office.

Use the form below to encode every e-mail address you put on your site. Clicking the "Encode" button will prompt the form to generate coding elements for the e-mail address you type in. You can then copy and paste these coding elements onto your site.

E-mail Encoder

This form will create e-mail addresses and their subsequent HTML elements, similar to the example below:

<a href="mailto:anyone@ilstu.edu">anyone@ilstu.edu</a>

Enter e-mail address(es) separated by semicolons or commas:
 
CSS Class to use for each email address (optional):
 
Optional Text to display for each email address. (i.e. "Contact Us" instead of "someemail@ilstu.edu"):