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

Question

Is it possible to make a phone number clickable in HTML so that when a user clicks on the number that he is calling?

Answer 1

Something like this should work:

<a href="tel:[phone]">Call 1-800-555-5555</a> 

Additional Information:

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

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3966

Answer 2

I found this web page incredibly useful and informative for the different urines that can be used on web pages delivered to phones

http://beradrian.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/special-links/

Answer 3

You can determine the phone number in iOS using:

 <i>web_view.dataDetectorTypes=UIDataDetectorTypePhoneNumber;<i>