Sometimes, we want to obfuscate an e-mail address on a website with JavaScript.
In this article, we’ll look at how to obfuscate an e-mail address on a website with JavaScript.
How to obfuscate an e-mail address on a website with JavaScript?
To obfuscate an e-mail address on a website with JavaScript, we can use the btoa and atob functions.
For instance, we write
email = btoa("mailto:email@example.com");
to return an obfuscated version of the email address string and assign it to email.
Then we write
<a href="javascript:window.location.href = atob(email)">E-Mail</a>
to set the href attribute to set the location.href property to the email string that’s decoded with atob.
Conclusion
To obfuscate an e-mail address on a website with JavaScript, we can use the btoa and atob functions.
