Iphone – How to disable phone number linking in Mobile Safari

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Safari on iPhone automatically creates links for strings of digits that appear to the telephone numbers. I am writing a web page containing an IP address, and Safari is turning that into a phone number link. Is it possible to disable this behavior for a whole page or an element on a page?

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This seems to be the right thing to do, according to the Safari HTML Reference:

<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">

If you disable this but still want telephone links, you can still use the "tel" URI scheme.

Here is the relevant page at Apple's Developer Library.

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Are you loading this in a UIWebView? If so, you need to set the property for dataDetectorTypes. e.g:

webView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeNone

Valid detector types are here.

Search for UIWebView on apple's site for a description of how to set the property there.

-Kevin

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