Preventing Skype from reformatting phone numbers
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I'm stumped on this and wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction.
I tried adding this:
<meta name="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" content="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE" />
to my header.php page and to the html directly for a content area, but I can't seem to prevent Skype from reformatting my phone numbers. Short of turning the phone number into a graphic, would anyone know of a way to address this?
I really appreciate your time and help on this.
Thanks!!
Michelle
I tried adding this:
<meta name="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" content="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE" />
to my header.php page and to the html directly for a content area, but I can't seem to prevent Skype from reformatting my phone numbers. Short of turning the phone number into a graphic, would anyone know of a way to address this?
I really appreciate your time and help on this.
Thanks!!
Michelle
Or - if you don't want to deal with style sheets, and don't mind learning a little more about your craft, character entity encoding...
You know how "less than" and "greater than" and simply "<" or ">" in HTML? Well the same can be true for numbers. This linkhttp://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/latin1.html... - list all the encoding types that, readable by browsers, aren't so for spam bots or Skype so in HTML.... ( 2 2 2 ) 5 9 6 - 0 1 7 8
turns into:
(222) 596-0178 in the browser view.
You know how "less than" and "greater than" and simply "<" or ">" in HTML? Well the same can be true for numbers. This linkhttp://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/latin1.html... - list all the encoding types that, readable by browsers, aren't so for spam bots or Skype so in HTML.... ( 2 2 2 ) 5 9 6 - 0 1 7 8
turns into:
(222) 596-0178 in the browser view.
Thanks, Zoiig! I'll try this.
Well, I just discovered that the fix doesn't work for Firefox.
Any ideas, folks?
Michelle
Any ideas, folks?
Michelle
are you sure? I primarily work in FF and I'm seeing the numbers fine - the code has to be applied in the HTML, not in the WYSIWYG, other wise just like the post all you're looking at is code and not the translation.
( wish this text box had and HTML code tab and I'd show ya... )
( wish this text box had and HTML code tab and I'd show ya... )
Use this in the html (fake phone number for example of html)
<p>1-8XX-555-<span style="display: none;">_</span>1212</p>
<div id="_mcePaste" class="mcePaste" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; top: 0px; left: -10000px;">?</div>
If there is a more elegant way, let me know. Otherwise, this works.