Comments on: iPhone Telephone Hyperlinks

By: thany

thany — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:37:29 +0000

The tel: href also works on Symbian (verified on S60 3rd). Perfect.

It also seems to work on Opera Mobile 10 (beta 2), but not because of the tel: href, but simply because it attempts to recognize phone numbers in plain text.

By: bevhoward

bevhoward — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:56:31 +0000

DTMF String??

Try creating an identical link using DTMF:
(keypad numbers only, no spaces)

Works in most versions of windows mobile.

Beverly Howard

By: Matt Torbin

Matt Torbin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:59:02 +0000

@graiz: Thanks, I dug this up and for those who want to see it as well, here is the url:

http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/Articles/PhoneLinks.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007893-SW1

By: Pritesh

Pritesh — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:40:22 +0000

hi ,
Do iphone provides way to write plug-in for iphone safari browser.

By: graiz

graiz — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:23:51 +0000

Adding a comment in response to Blake’s question. Turns out there is a meta tag for your needs:

This is buried in the documentation for the web-sdk:
Web Apps Dev Center > Reference Library > Guides > Apple Applications > Safari > Safari Web Content Guide for iPhone OS > Apple Applications URL Schemes > Phone Links

The only hack I’ve found to prevent one string from getting recognized while keeping detection on for the rest of the page is inserting a hidden character into the string: 2008-2009.

In the above is a hidden hyphen marker.

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:23:09 +0000

I am having trouble in the opposite direction.

I want to stop iPhone from automatic recognize a set of numbers as a phone and to “stop” from iPhone from making the number clickable.

The number format I have is 1999-2008 which is actually a copyright, yet I could “dial” it from my iPhone.

Any thoughts?

By: Mark Horner

Mark Horner — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:41:59 +0000

It also works for sms, format sms: SMS: 07976 928586 Now!

By: MRSumra

MRSumra — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:39:58 +0000

How can i append DTMF string in tel URL link?

By: Steve Smith

Steve Smith — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:14:32 +0000

It works on the iPhone. Just tried it. It comes up with a dialog box with the number and a choice to “Call” or “Cancel”.