<span class="emailCloak">you(at)somewhere.com</span>
Use this Javascript to format it into an anchor tag with the mailto link.
function emailCloak() { if (document.getElementById) { var alltags = document.all? document.all : document.getElementsByTagName("*"); for (i=0; i < alltags.length; i++) { if (alltags[i].className == "emailCloak") { var oldText = alltags[i].firstChild; var emailAddress = alltags[i].firstChild.nodeValue; var user = emailAddress.substring(0, emailAddress.indexOf("(")); var website = emailAddress.substring(emailAddress.indexOf(")")+1, emailAddress.length); var newText = user+"@"+website; var a = document.createElement("a"); a.href = "mailto:"+newText; var address = document.createTextNode(newText); a.appendChild(address); alltags[i].replaceChild(a,oldText); } } } } window.onload = emailCloak;