Issue with script/mailto link

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I’m using a little script/css solution to prevent spam and collection of email-addresses.

I am using the identical script on several websites.

Now, the funny thing is, that it works on one website (basically clicking the email-address will open a window in your favourite email application), while the others fail.

I noticed that the website where it works is running on roots 6.5.0 while the others are 6.5.1

website w. working script: http://360westx.com/contact/
website w. failing script: http://simon-communications.com/

As for the latter, I only added this one script to the _main.js, so I suppose it can’t be a conflict.

Any ideas?

2

You should always be checking your dev tools console:

Uncaught ReferenceError: mailto is not defined

mailto isn’t even found in your scripts.min.js so that’s the problem. Not sure what exactly your workflow is. Are you using Grunt?

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I’m using grunt on Windows with XAMPP for local development, as I use shared hosting which prevents me from shell access.

Anyway, this is the script that I use (in _main.js):
/*! Mask Email Address */ function mailto(host,name,tld) { window.location = 'mailto:'+name+'@'+host+'.'+tld; }

And this is the corresponding LESS/CSS Code:
/* Mask Email Address */ .e-addy { text-decoration: none !important; } .e-addy:hover { color: #333 !important; text-decoration: underline !important; } .e-addy .at, .e-addy .dot { display: none; text-decoration: none !important; } .e-addy .domain:before { content: "@"; } .e-addy .domain:after { content: "."; }

As I said, it works on Roots 6.5.0 not on 6.5.1

4

You need to run grunt after making changes to _main.js.

5

I know that I have to run grunt and that’s what I did. I’ve build several sites based on roots already. One of them, http://simon-communications.com is very basic, there is just the above mentioned script added to _main.js, I double-checked with scripts.min.js, also contained in here. the grunt-job runs without failure, so that can’t be causing it.

6

Then you need to upload the updated script to your server. The current version does not contain your mailto function.

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That’s what I did. I added a mailto function, ran grunt succesfully and uploaded to the server.

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All I can tell you is the script on your live server does not contain the mailto function; and that the function itself compiles fine locally (on Roots 6.5.1).

You’ll have to debug your workflow to find out what the problem is.