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on browser phone number are showing with skype icon

No they are not. Some browsers may have specific functionality for this. Alternatively it may be implemented by the site serving the page. In the case of the former, you'd need to provide detils of which browser - and its probably not controllable from serverside anyway.

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symcbean 2010-08-10 11:27:12

Answer 2

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Uninstall Skype and see if it changes.

Skype usually interacts witht your browser and adds its own formatting for phone numbers.

Reuben Mallaby 2010-08-10 11:31:40

Answer 3

+3 A:

That is the skype plugin of your browser. When you install skype software, it automatically adds that plugin for firefox and IE AFAIK.

Just remove the plugin or the software and you are good to go. Anyway, the visitors of your website may have the software installed though.

pakore 2010-08-10 11:32:43

Yep, I do this too - hate that.

Brett Rigby 2010-08-10 14:29:18

Answer 4

+1 A:

It is the add ons of skype that adds skype symbol to phone number.
You can remove + symbol from in front of it.

<p>+372 56-99-99-99</p> - is recognized by Skype add-on.
<p>372 56-99-99-99</p> - is not.

org.life.java 2010-08-10 11:36:34

I tried personally .It works

org.life.java 2010-08-10 11:44:17

So you're making the phone number less readable (the + is there for a reason, usually) *and* you remove functionality for people that possibly voluntarily installed the Skype plugin and actually like that they're able to click on a number to dial it with Skype? -1.

deceze 2010-09-22 04:04:29

@deceze to fulfil his requirement it was necessary and obviously you can put a small symbol to represent + sign as a small png picture. i htink

org.life.java 2010-09-22 06:07:09

Sometimes the requirement is wrong. :) What if a more intelligent plugin would still recognize the number, even without a leading +? Do you keep mangling the number until no plugin can read it (and probably no human either)? No, the solution is to "uninstall the plugin if it bothers you". :)

deceze 2010-09-22 06:35:44

@deceze we can't force each user to un-install plugin from their browser.

org.life.java 2010-09-22 06:39:18

You can't anticipate and work around every possible plugin a user has or may have installed either. If a user has the plugin, she's probably used to having all telephone numbers highlighted. In fact, she may find it annoying that you have incorrectly formatted your number and she can't click on it. There are anti-malware programs that put an icon next to links to indicate "safe" or "unsafe". If you don't want that, do you remove all your links? No, because you don't worry about what a user has or hasn't on her PC!

deceze 2010-09-22 06:48:14

@deceze then you can also convert text to image and place it there just to display no , i don't think plugin will try parsing image :)

org.life.java 2010-09-22 07:13:30

Sure, just print out your site as a flyer and send it via post, there won't be any unwanted surprises. People may still *highlight* your phone number with a pen and maybe even draw a small Skype icon next to it though. :P

deceze 2010-09-22 07:20:42

Answer 5

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Use the following CSS to prevent skype from formatting the numbers on your page:

span.skype_pnh_container {display:none !important;} span.skype_pnh_print_container {display:inline !important;}

hans 2010-10-01 17:29:12

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