Unable to hide email address

When the 'Hide email address' checkbox is selected, the email address will be obfuscated in the source of the web page so that spam bots cannot crawl your page and easily find and harvest your email address for future spamming purposes. It does not hide the email address from view when visitors view your web site in a browser.

If you type an email address as email@address.com and do not select the 'Hide email address' checkbox, then when you view the source of the web page, the email address will be in plain text (and readable to everyone).

<p class="email">Email: <a href="mailto:email@address.com" class="email" title="Email">email@address.com</a></p>

However, if you then select the 'Hide email address' checkbox, the email address will be obfuscated and will appear in the source code of the web page as follows:

<p class="email">Email: <script type="text/javascript">eval(unescape('%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%22%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%65%6d%61%69%6c%40%61%64%64%72%65%73%73%2e%63%6f%6d%22%20%63%6c%61%73%73%3d%22%65%6d%61%69%6c%22%20%74%69%74%6c%65%3d%22%45%6d%61%69%6c%22%3e%65%6d%61%69%6c%40%61%64%64%72%65%73%73%2e%63%6f%6d%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29%3b'))</script></p>

(The email address will still be visible in the web page and there will be do difference to the look of your site to visitors whether you select the 'Hide email address' checkbox or not.)

If you want to have a link to allow users to email you but to hide your email address on the page, then you could enter something like the following into the Showkase editor (making sure that you are in 'Source' mode):

<a href="mailto:email@address.com">Click to email me.</a>

Please note that this will not hide the email address from spammers and visitors to your site will still be able to determine your email address as soon as they hover over or click the link.

I hope this helps to clarify things.