How to disable phone number linking in Mobile Safari?

Question

Safari on iPhone automatically creates links for strings of digits that appear to the telephone numbers. I am writing a web page containing an IP address, and Safari is tur

Answer 1

does not work for emails: if the HTML you are preparing is for an email, the metatag will be ignored.

If what you are targeting are emails, here's yet another ugly-but-works solution for ya'll:

Example of some HTML you want to avoid being linked or auto formatted:

will cease operations on June 1,
2012.

And the CSS that will make the magic happen:

@media only screen and (device-width: 768px) and (orientation:portrait){
span.ios-date{display:none;}
span.ios-date + span:after{content:"on June 1, 2012";}
}

The drawback: you may need a media query for each of the ipad/iphone portrait/landscape combos