Is there a way to make a phone number clickable on an iphone or android phone to make a call in HTML?

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leeand00 picture leeand00 · Dec 31, 2010 · Viewed 88.9k times · Source

Is it possible to make a phone number clickable in HTML so that when a user clicks on the number it is called?

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Mark B picture Mark B · Dec 31, 2010

Something like this should work:

<a href="tel:+1-800-555-5555">Call 1-800-555-5555</a>

More info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme#tel:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3966

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