how to remove smart tags from web page - it things my nbr is a phone

[jtaylorttt]

In one of my fields, I have a number 999-888-llll. In IE with thier smart tags this comes up looking like a phone number. With a flag on one side and a phone symbol on the other.

is there a meta tag i can add to my page to prevent the explores from interpeting this as a phone number. It is not

 

[JAG14]

AFAIK, Smart Tags were only in the early versions of IE6.
Are you sure that this isn't the Skype Add-on/Plugin for Internet Explorer?

Regards,

Jag14

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[ca8msm]

As stated above, this is not Internet Explorer that is doing this. Check your installed add-ins to find out what it is.

Mark,

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[jtaylorttt]

thank you so much, I did not even think of that. I removed the skype add0n

 

[jtaylorttt]

Is there any way in the code to prevent this instead of just having them turn the Skype add in off?

 

[ca8msm]

No, unless you format the number differently so that the add-in doesn't recognise it as a phone number.

Mark,

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[JAG14]

JTaylorTTT,

The skype documentation lists the following meta tag as a way of turning off the parser.

<meta name="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" content="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE" />

Keep us updated on whether it works, as I don't use Skype!

Regards,

Jag14

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[jtaylorttt]

That works!!! thanks.

 

[JAG14]

Glad it works, thanks for coming back to us.

Jag14

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