There are quite a few sites that will let you encode your email address via JavaScript to show it on a web site without bots being able to find it, & therefore spam it (or at least it stems the tide).

When you click on them it opens a new email message in the user’s email client with the email address in the ‘to’ field.

What I want to do is display an email address on a web site & encode it in JavaScript (to help prevent spam), but I don’t want it to open a new email when clicked on (I want to activate some different JavaScript instead).

Does anyone know if this would be possible?

Don't set it as a mailto: link and use an onclick event on the container

Thanks for replying.
I don't have anything set as mailto: it just looks like gobbledy gook

Anyway, never-mind. I found the solution on the site where I encoded the original email address

Okaaay, that might take a bit of decoding

Why do you need to encode it if you are calling a function rather than displaying an email address?
Just use document.write()
Here is what I do http://www.candsdesign.co.uk/article...il/javascript/

But if you want to encode the HTML - http://hivelogic.com/enkoder/form

It's to initiate an animation that makes an ajax contact form appear.

Enkoder is what I was using, & able to use to make the new code.
Thanks for the other link