Is there a way to make a phone number clickable on an iphone or android phone to make a call in HTML?

android html iphone webkit mobile-safari

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Something like this should work:

<a href="tel:+1-800-555-5555">Call 1-800-555-5555</a>

More info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme#tel:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3966

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Jamie Deakin

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Updated on July 05, 2022

Comments

Jamie Deakin almost 2 years

Is it possible to make a phone number clickable in HTML so that when a user clicks on the number it is called?
- techi.services over 13 years
  
  Are you doing the HTML markup or are you trying to use a third party website and extract the phone numbers?
- Jamie Deakin over 13 years
  
  @sugarynugs Doing HTML markup.
- techi.services over 13 years
  
  have you tried mbairds answer? that looks like what you want but whether it makes Android dial the number...
- Dan Breslau over 13 years
  
  Sorry to have been so dense. I didn't realize that your question was about generating the HTML, not about displaying it on the device. I'm going to delete my answer.
Jamie Deakin over 13 years

Does this work on devices other than Android too? Such as BlackBerry and iPhone? (using each of their default browsers of course) And additionally what about on a browser like Opera Mini or Opera Mobile?
Mark B over 13 years

Yes, nothing about that is Android specific. I've tested it on iOS as well as Android.