If visitors to your website have Skype installed, it may reformat what it thinks are phone numbers on your website. This can be very annoying if you get a phone call from an angry client asking why the design is broken and you can’t see the problem.
The image here shows the contact page of my business site, WebsiteDoctor.com. Note the phone numbers at the top of the image, and the one in the middle of the text. Before I fixed this, Skype was reformatting all numbers, which severely affected the balance of the banner design (see the site to see why).
I’ve included a Skype specific meta tag to tell it to reformat the 2nd instance of the number only.
Here’s the code to do that. First, add this META tag to the <head> section of your webpage or CMS:
<META NAME="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" CONTENT="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE" />
At this stage, Skype will not reformat ANY numbers. If you just want to remove all Skype formatting, you’re finished now!
Ok, to tell Skype that you are allowing it to format a number you need to wrap the number with the following html comments. Note you can also specify “File As:” text for the Skype application:
<!-- sphoneid telnr="+35314404342" fileas="WebsiteDoctor Office (Dublin)" -->01 4404 342<!-- sphoneid -->
I hope this helps you out. If it does, or if you need any further help, please leave a comment below.
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Excellent! This Skype thing has annoyed me every now and then,personally, but I never really stopped to think about the solution to it regarding future complaints from customers. thanks for sharing!
thanks heaps.. great fix.. however my problem is in the reports (telerik).I dont know how to add meta tage there but atleast this is a good starting point
I have tried but it does not work