Safari on iPhone automatically creates links for strings of digits that appear to the telephone numbers. I am writing a web page containing an IP address, and Safari is turning that into a phone number link. Is it possible to disable this behavior for a whole page or an element on a page?
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Add this, I think it is what you're looking for:
<meta name = "format-detection" content = "telephone=no">
Chuck
2008-10-22 15:18:03
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This seems to be the right thing to do, according to the Safari Web Content Guide for iPhone:
<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">
If you disable this but still want telephone links, you can still use the "tel" URI scheme.
lewinski
2008-10-22 19:36:47
Claudio, don't use the Answer box to post a comment.
benzado
2010-04-08 15:12:39
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works on Iphone, but not on Ipod, at least on 3.0 => I must use htmlentities
liviu
2010-05-11 12:22:26
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If you add your web app to the home screen it stops working. Looks like only works when the app is accessed from Safari. Any ideas?
codedj
2010-08-03 16:03:58
Don't use the answer box to post a question. Post a new question, link to this one if you want to refer to it.
benzado
2010-08-04 16:23:06
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Think I've found a solution: put the number inside a <label> element. Haven't tried any other tags, but <div> left it active on the home screen, even with the telephone=no attribute.
It seems obvious from earlier comments that the meta tag did work, but for some reason has broken under the later versions of iOS, at least under some conditions. I am running 4.0.1.
BobFromBris
2010-08-09 06:48:37
Hi Bob. If you want to put in HTML code examples, you have to wrap the code in backticks, `<like this>`. (Stack Overflow uses a formatting language called Markdown.) I’ll edit your answer accordingly.
Paul D. Waite
2010-08-09 22:11:51
That didn't ultimately work - when I reloaded the App, the link hiliting was back. I have resorted to adding a`#` character to the front of the phone number: according to the Apple doc "Apple URL Scheme Reference":"Specifically, if a URL contains the * or # characters, the Phone application does not attempt to dial the corresponding phone number."
BobFromBris
2010-08-10 07:59:16