Apple suggests breaking them in half with span elements.

On Jul 17, 2008, at 9:07 PM, v wrote:

>
> Hello all
>
> iPhone 2 seems rather aggressive in deciding what is a telephone
> number, making numbers in certain formats into telephone links when I
> do not want it to.
>
> e.g it is changing text such as 815-0083,  8150083 and even 4-8-12-303
> into telephone links that invoke a "do you want to call" dialog when
> clicked. (They are actually Japanese postal code elements.)
>
> Is there any way to explicitly tell it to NOT make them telephone
> links, and treat them just as plain-text?
>
> This is the kind of situation where I am having problems.
>
> <snip>
> <form action="" method="get" enctype="application/x-www-form-
> urlencoded" name="pcode"> Required: Full <b>Post-code or Zip</b><br />
> e.g. 8150083 or 815-0083<br />
> </snip>
>
>
> Using &ndash; in place of the hyphen appears to work - but &nbsp; in
> place of spaces does not.  &ndash seems a bit of a kluge though....
>
> regards,
>
> Nick
>
>
> >


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