[dba-Tech] html escape question

[Susan Harkins]

BTW, the meta tag worked perfectly: 

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

It's an all-or-nothing solution, but for my purposes, it's fine. 

Thanks Stuart!
Susan H. 

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From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of Stuart
McLachlan
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 8:01 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] html escape question

Sorted off-line.  For those who are interested, it's MS Edge second guessing
the user!
See

https://www.howtosolutions.net/2016/10/microsoft-edge-disabling-phone-number
-detection-pr
oblem/



On 21 Nov 2018 at 19:34, Susan Harkins wrote:

> Nope -- just (000) 000-0000. Displays as a link. 
> 
> Susan H
> 
> 
> Nope, nothing to do with character sets, that just tells the browser 
> how to turn the bytes in the HTML file into characters.
> 
> It will only be a link if it is surrounded by <a>........ </a>.
> 
> HTML template for what? Can you send me a copy of the template?
> 
> 
> 
> On 21 Nov 2018 at 19:11, Susan Harkins wrote:
> 
> > Yes -- I'm sorry for not being clear. It's an html template. I 
> > assumed it was a part of utf-8.
> > 
> > <meta charset="utf-8">
> > 
> > Susan H. 
> > 
> > 
> > In what context? How is the HTML being created? 
> > 
> > HTML doesn't  "format as a link".  It's just a markup language.
> > Someone or something would have to  code the link into the HTML.
> > 
> > 
> > On 21 Nov 2018 at 18:23, Susan Harkins wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyone know how to keep html from formatting a phone number as a 
> > > link?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Susan H. 
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