Disable telephone anchor

Question

I'm developing a web application using PhoneGap that will be distributed to several mobile OS including iOS. When I generate the application to iOS the numeric values with at least 7 digits are modified to telephone anchors, in order to "fix" this I've attached the following event handler: ``` $( 'a[href^="tel"]' ).live( 'click', function() { return false; }); ``` This code works fine except when I use jQuery Mobile, any idea why?

Accepted Answer

Try to add this to your header

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

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Disable telephone anchor

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