Clickable tel protocol a tag in firefox

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snakesNbronies picture snakesNbronies · Jan 15, 2013 · Viewed 14.1k times · Source

I have a pretty standard a tag for a telephone number. It works in everything except Firefox. I thought the tel protocol was standard - is there a workaround I am unaware of?

<a class="tel" href="tel:8001234567">(800) 123-4567</a>

Firefox error message:

The address wasn't understood

Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (tel) isn't associated with any program.

You might need to install other software to open this address.

Answer

looper picture looper · Jan 15, 2013

Firefox doesn't know a program for every protocol. The user would need to specify a program in the settings in this case. There is no server-side workaround for this, except replacing it with the unofficial callto: introduced by Skype.

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