Taming the automatic telephone number thing in the windows 10 edge browser

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Apparently phone number detection was introduced in Internet Explorer 11, but not on desktops.

Here are ways to control it, taken from this MS article: Phone number format recognition

  • To disable the behavior for an element (and its child elements), set the x-ms-format-detection attribute to “none”.
  • To disable the behavior for a webpage, use the meta element:

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

  • To enable the behavior for an element (and its child elements), set the x-ms-format-detection attribute to “phone” or “all”.

  • To selectively control the behavior using JavaScript, use setAttribute to change the value of the x-ms-format-detection attribute of the associate element or its parent. (Note that this needs to be done before the element or the parent is rendered in the DOM; dynamic changes are not supported.)

If I understand the article correctly, if phone detection is disabled at the browser level, the x-ms-format-detection attribute (or the meta tag) will be ignored.

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