Click or Tap to Call

[tommer]

I’m trying to make a ‘tap to call’ (image button), – – and can’t seem to get it to work.

On searching for the code (including here), – – there seems to be a lot variations of the phone number input, – – none of which seem to work for me.

Things like “tel:+0000000000”, “tel:0000000000” and a few more variations. Some with 10 numbers, some with 11 numbers, some with no spaces, some with dashes, excederin, excederin . . .

Which is correct, – – or are they all supposed to work??

I have my code in a top text widget and it reads like this, — maybe ‘it’ is the problem??

It shows fine, — just doesn’t want to make the call.

Thanks in advance . . .

000-000-0000

[Paulie_D]

Should you not be using

I think that’s the HTML5 way to go…

http://html5doctor.com/html5-forms-input-types/

http://webdesign.about.com/od/html5tags/p/input-tel-tag.htm

[tommer]

Thanks for the response, Paulie.

I haven’t seen any mention of anything like that anywhere, – – but would be glad to give it a try.

Where exactly would that code go, – – before the opening anchor tag?? Thanks . . .

[Paulie_D]

It’s a replacement for the anchor tag rather than an addition.

No reason why you couldn’t style them the same though.

[Paulie_D]

Altenatively

http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/htmlcss-tutorials/quick-tip-make-telephone-numbers-do-something/

and

http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mobile-web-apps/phone-number-links/

[tommer]

Thanks, Paulie, – – looks like my trying to do it with an ‘image’ may have been the holdup, – – they appear to be saying to code it as “tel://0-000-000-0000” when linking from an image.

I’ll try that . . .

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