Question

Is there a javascript library the can recognize phone numbers in a web page? Just like what skype did on their firefox plugin.

Or do you know a way on how to do it? Websites or any tutorial that do the same would be very helpful.

Your reply is greatly appreciated.

Best,

Answer 1

Someone else may have a better way of doing this, but this seems to give you a link around each phone number.

I just used my simple regular expression, so you may want to substitute the one that Adam provided.

$(document).ready(function () {

    $('*','body').each(function() {
        $(this).html( $(this).html().replace(/(\d\d\d-\d\d\d-\d\d\d\d)/g,'<a href="#">$1</a>') );
    });

});

Hope it helps.

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EDIT:

It may work as well, or better, with this version.

$(document).ready(function () {
    $('body').html( $('body').html().replace(/(\d\d\d-\d\d\d-\d\d\d\d)/g,'<a href="#">$1</a>') );
});

I don’t know if there are any pitfalls, but seems to work with a fairly simple page.