How to make a telephone number clickable on iPhone or Android

Thursday 15 December 2011

To make a telephone number clickable on an iPhone or Android device simply wrap it in an HTML <a> tag. When the link is clicked the device's phone will be activated. Don't forget to prepend 'tel:' to the link.

<a href="tel:+440000000000">00000 000000</a>

Comments

Does this cause any problems with known desktop programs, like Skype's browser plugin?

Posted by Michael Zock on Friday 23 December 2011 at 12:46 GMT

I haven't tested it using Skype to be honest and since writing this post I've learned that iPhones detect phone numbers without any additional markup. It definitely works for Android phones though.