Adding phone links

jamie — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:50:58 +0000

Helpful little tidbit of info for those who have phone numbers in your websites. If you want your phone number to be clickable on a smart phone, in most cases this will happen by default because the phone can recognize phone number like patterns. This can also happen for things that just look like a phone number. If you want to disable phone number links, you can simply add this nice little line of code to your site:

Adding a clickable phone number is very helpful though. I actually had to add one to an image before, and it worked on the iphone and android phones. Just add a line of html like you would for a link or email, but using the tel tag:

Simple and works well. Of course the same rule applies if you want to add the code to text. Just take out the image part and write it how you would for a link.

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Adding phone links