Question

I have a mobile WEB Page showing a bank statement. Something like this:

DATE          | DESCRIPTION              | AMOUNT
--------------|--------------------------|---------------
Jan 2nd 2010  | Clothes                  |  USD 1.839.000
Sep 23rd 2010 | Drinks                   |  USD 2.837.000

I am using . as a thousand separator since that’s our locale configuration for that.

HTML is very simple. Something like this:

<table>
   <tr>
      <td>DATE</td>
      <td>Clothes</td>
      <td>AMOUNT</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>Jan 2nd 2010</td>
      <td>Clothes</td>
      <td>USD 1.839.000</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>Sep 23rd 2010</td>
      <td>Drinks</td>
      <td>USD 2.837.000</td>
   </tr>
</table>

The problem I am having is that iPhone’s Safari, Android Browsers and some Nokia Browsers are thinking (erroneously) numbers such as 1.839.000 and 2.837.000 are phone numbers hence rendering them as links to make phone calls or do some texting.

My question: Is there a special TAG/ATTRIBUTE/CSSSTYLE to tell mobile browser to show that kind of text as plain text?

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

I don’t know about Android or Nokia, but for iPhone you could use the meta tag:

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

to disable detecting anything as a phone number.