embed iphone contact on page click link

Question

my question is analogous to the "mailto:[email protected]" type of link but is more specifically:

if a phone number exists on a page and is viewed by a user on an iphone (phone number will appear as link), is there a way for that link to automatically (upon user clicking) ask the user if they want to add that number to the contact, and then auto fill certain details?

this seems a bit too amorphous to be obviously possible, but you never know.

Answer 1

Nope. Phone numbers will be recognized by Mobile Safari automatically, and be "forced" to be seen as telephone numbers by doing something like this:

<a href="tel:5551212">555-1212</a>

But you can't control the phone's behavior when the user taps the link. (Cool feature idea though. :) )