iPhone webkit dialer not working

Question

Hi,

I've a simple dialer like this
<a class="call" href="tel:18000000000">1 (800) 800-0000</a>

It's not doing the call out.
Do I need to set anything before that will work?

Thanks,
Tee

Answer 1

I've only used UIWebView with the detectsPhoneNumbers property set to YES, which means you don't need to put the <a> tag around phone numbers. Did you check that property?

With iPhone OS 3.0 and later, you should use UIDataDetectorTypePhoneNumber in the dataDetectorTypes property.

But if you're just writing HTML and not a Cocoa app, you probably want it to be like:

<a class="call" href="tel://18000000000">1 (800) 800-0000</a>

Make sure to include the slashes.