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stevencooper
5,755 PointsHow do I prevent a telephone number from becoming a Skype number?
On contact page, in html, we are making unordered lists giving contact details. When I go to <li class="phone"><a href="tel:(503)933-8981">(503)933-8981</a></li> a skype symbol appears before both the "tel:phone number" AND before the phone number inside the link brackets. So both instances of the telephone number, if an area code is inserted, a Skype symbol appears. If i remove the area code, the skype symbol disappears. Does anyone know how to prevent a skype link from forming? thanks.
4 Answers
Fredrik August Madsen-Malmo
16,261 PointsThis is not anything you can control. This is Skypes default behaviour when encountering phone numbers. If you would ask someone without Skype installed to look at your website they would not see any Skype icon.
Jesper Kristensen
10,111 PointsTo my nowledge you cant. Skype uses "callto:<usename>" for making skype calls. During installation of Skype it ask if the user wants to asosiate tel: with Skype. Default is yes and most users forget to uncheck this, because they overlook it or dont know what it means.
stevencooper
5,755 PointsIs it possible to go into skype once installed and uncheck the association box? If so, how do I go about it? Would I have to reinstall Skype to get to the place where i can dissociate my phone number from Skype? Thanks for your help!
Fredrik August Madsen-Malmo
16,261 PointsThe only way to fix this (AFAIK) is to reinstall the program and untick this box.
Fabian Wilson
5,076 PointsDoes this happen in all browsers. I have noticed this in browsers that have a Skype plug-in installed.
stevencooper
5,755 PointsI don't know if my problems extend to other browsers. I don't like IE, & refuse to use Google Chrome (google collects information on you bigtime when you use chrome). I think I'm gonna follow Fredrik's advice and reinstall Skype so I can uncheck the linkage between my phone # & Skype.
thanks for your input.
Fabian Wilson
5,076 PointsI don't think they are calling you on your Skype account. I think they are calling you from their Skype account if they click on the number. The symbol is just a shortcut to load the number into Skype.
stevencooper
5,755 Pointsstevencooper
5,755 PointsThanks. Would the phone # link still take them to skype to call me? I would prefer to not have people call me on Skype, I rarely use it.
Fredrik August Madsen-Malmo
16,261 PointsFredrik August Madsen-Malmo
16,261 PointsAs far as I know there is no way to avoid this behaviour. This has nothing to do with your code, this only appears because you have installed skype. There might be a workaround somewhere with JavaScript, but you'll have to google for that. Good luck!