Conventionally, email addresses published on webpages may be protected from email-harvesting spambots via various HTML, CSS & JS-based techniques. This alternative technique is SVG-based.

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Learn how to protect your email address using an SVG-based approach that doesn't require JavaScript. This technique allows the email address to remain usable and accessible even with JavaScript turned off.

Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JS

Three advantages of an SVG-based approach to protecting email addresses

<p>this isn’t the 90s any more. emails should be “protected” by the email service provider which should screen spam automatically.</p>


<p>This is useless, bots can just as easily view the svg source or convert images to text. Also, the idea that you even have to obscure your email is antiquated. If it’s a concern, get better mail hosting, or use a secure form.</p>
