[s1yfa]

Hi,

Is there anyway to stop Skype making phone numbers clickable on my website? I want to be able to apply something to my html code to stop Skype picking up on these phone numbers as it messes up the way my page is displayed.

Its is very unlikely that Skype will be used to contact my company via our website, and if people really do want to use it, well they can always copy and paste the number!

Currently I just have the numbers typed in a cell of a table like this- T: +44 (0) 16** ***911. Skype also picks up our fax numbers too, and I dont want people trying to ring that!

thanks

[s1yfa]

ok, I have figured out a real simple solution to this. I use entity syntax to write out a phone number in the code, which is not recognisable by Skype but translates to regular numbers on the page, kinda like when you write &quot for quote marks.

For a full list of syntax see http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/latin1.html

You can write anything in syntax so it cant be read by spambots -email for example - and other programs, but still looks like regular text once rendered on a webpage.

Hope this may be of use to others

[therocket954]

Wow... very useful. Always encoded special characters to stick to standards, but I didn't even know you could encode everything.

Good link. Thanks!