How to trigger a phone call when clicking a link in a web page on mobile phone

Question

I need to build a web page for mobile devices. There\'s only one thing I still haven\'t figured out: how can I trigger a phone call through the click of text?

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Want to add an answer here for the sake of completeness.

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Works just fine on most devices. However, on desktops this will appear as a link which does nothing when you click on it so you should consider using CSS to make it conditionally visible only on mobile devices.

Also, you should know that Skype (which is fairly popular) uses a different syntax by default (but can be parametered to use tel:).

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However, I think in latest mobile browsers (I know for sure on Android) now the tel syntax should offer a popup of available applications that can be used to complete the calling action.