Mobile Safari/ iPhone Mail.app HTML design issues: prevent autolinking and styling auto-links (dates, addresses, etc.)

Question

i am trying to design an HTML e-mail that should also look good when it is read on mobile devices. My biggest problems are with the iPhone (iOS 4): its mostly undocumented \

Answer 1

I don't think you can disable auto linking for addresses and dates like you do with phone numbers, at least it is not in the Apple's official documentation, the Safari HTML Reference.

A hack to try to prevent auto linking is to use some redundant tags in the content. For example, instead of writing out

+61 3 777 8888

, you could do something like

+61 3 777 8888

. It's not very elegant, but it might achieve what you want.