I want to add this code to make the contact details on my website automatically jump into a mobile dialpad/address book when clicked:
<a href="tel:12345555555">Call Us Now</a>
How can I make it appear as plain text for non-telephone devices (computers, tablets, laptops) so that it doesn't return a 404 error and cannot be clicked?
Happy to use any combination of HTML/CSS/JS to achieve this.
Don't use a hyperlink. Use microdata . Mobile phones will recognize that it is a phone number and allow it to be clicked but it won't affect normal web browsers.
<div class="vcard">
<div class="tel">
12345555555
</div>
</div>
This might not directly answer the question, but I'd challenge your assumption that you need to hide call links on other devices.
Why?
tel:
links. tel:
links by allowing the user to add the number to their contacts, which would undoubtedly be synced to their phone – a nice convenience for your users. So just leave it as a regular link. Maybe make it obvious by linking the phone number, so that someone on a desktop with no telephony software will understand that nothing will happen when they click it.
Call Us Now at <a href="tel:12345555555">(234) 555-5555</a>
Also, remember that a tel:
link won't result in a 404 error since a HTTP request is never generated. On my machine with no tel:
handler, Chrome simply does nothing, IE9 says " Some content or files on this webpage require a program that you don't have installed. " (reasonable), and Firefox says " Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (tel) isn't associated with any program. " (also reasonable).
When I was faced with this problem, I decided that the benefits of just leaving in tel:
links outweighed any downsides or messy alternatives.
I am using the below CSS with Media Queries to reach this.
@media screen and (min-width: 768px) {
a[href*="tel:"] {
cursor:default;
}
}
It is based on this question
I had the same problem and started using the meta tag for format detection:
<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no" />
per this discussion with the same problem: Disable telephone number detection on iPad desktop web links?
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