Prevent Scythian highlighting from corrupt text fields

Question

In short, a text area programmatically filled with the phone number in it, with the Skype plugin installed, creates highlight marks.

In this way,

[phone] 

becomes

 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting [phone] end_of_the_skype_highlighting 

And if this line is placed inside the text box, the Skype highlight again encapsulates it, Ad infinitum.

How do you prevent this?

Answer 1

You should look at http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=96959&st=0

This seems to be an error message, but still not resolved.

Suggestions should use a meta tag (which does n't seem to work in all Skype plugins)

 <meta name="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" content="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE" /> 

Enter an invisible character that will destroy the skype algorithm for identifying phones

 +123 456<span style="display:none;">_</span> 789 

(I don't think this can work with text areas)

And, of course, disable the plugin if the problem is related to your own access to this page.

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Update

Check to see if either of the two examples works at http://www.jsfiddle.net/gaby/Qy7uw/ . (I do not have skype to check)

I am using zero width join ‍ and friend  

Answer 2

Using only CSS, you can remove it by overriding the styles used by Skype. Try adding these two lines to your stylesheet:

 span.skype_pnh_container {display:none !important;} span.skype_pnh_print_container {display:inline !important;} 

edit Skype started adding unique numbers to classes, you can solve it with the new Css 3 selector:

 span.skype_pnh_container {display:none !important;} span.skype_pnh_print_container, span[class^="skype_pnh_print_container"] {display:inline !important;} 

Answer 3

An ugly hack, not yet tested, but text that goes in the text box can be generated with a non-printable character between each printable character. Special encodings may be damaged, though ...