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Email addresses

There are two methods to provide a contact email address in a SiteBuilder page and protect it from spammers. The first is to use the page contact, which appears in the footer of all pages. The second method, described in this article, is to add a secure email link to the main content of the page. The email is readable and selectable, yet obfuscated in the page HTML, which makes it more difficult for spammers to find the address.

In this article:

Add a secure email link using the Components Editor

The Components Editor is an evolution of the old visual editor.

  1. Browse to the page where you want to show an email address.

  2. Go to Edit > Edit centre content.
  3. In the left-hand menu, select Add links and anchors > Secure email link.
  4. A Links and anchors popup appears. In the Add a secure email link section of the popup, enter the address in the Email address box.
  5. Optionally, enter a subject in the Email subject box. When a user selects the email link on your page, the subject of their email is pre-filled with any text you enter here.
  6. Select Add email address. A secure email link component is added to your page, showing the email address you entered.

    Note: to change the email address or subject, select the secure email link component on your page, then in the toolbar that appears above it, select Settings.

  7. When you've finished editing the page, select Publish. When you select the email address on the published page, a new draft email opens in your default email client.

Add a secure email link using the old visual editor

  1. Browse to the page where you want to show an email address.

    Note: this cannot be a page created for the Components Editor.

  2. Go to Edit > Edit centre content or Edit right content.
  3. In the toolbar, select Insert a > Secure email link.
  4. Enter the email address in the Secure email link window.
  5. Select Insert. The email address is added to the visual editor wrapped in [email] tags:

    [email]annette.kurten@example.com[/email]
  6. When you've finished editing the page, select Publish. When you select the email address on the published page, a new draft email opens in your default email client.

Note: it's good practice for accessibility to use the email address as the link caption so that users can determine the link purpose from the link text alone. For example:

[email]annette.kurten@example.com[/email]

is more accessible than:

[email address=annette.kurten@example.com]email me[/email]

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