How To Make A Clickable Phone Number

Yesterday I was making dinner plans and browsing websites on my mobile, one of the sites had a clickable phone number, which when clicked opened upwards the number in my phone ready to phone call – like shooting fish in a barrel peasy. The other didn't and I ended up reading out the number to my mum to put in her phone to then read back to me to put in my telephone to brand the call. Slightly trickier.

It didn't put me off calling and booking but the experience wasn't great. Practise you brand it a seamless experience for your customers to contact you? Yous probably have a contact folio, and an email address, and maybe a contact form people tin fill in while they are on your site without having to open upwards their emails. And you probably annunciate your phone number on your website as well right?

But is it click to phone call telephone number? When you lot click on your phone number from a mobile device does it open up upward the call log with the number ready to punch?

No? Then read on..

How to make a phone number a clickable link

You can turn a phone number into a clickable link the aforementioned style you would add a website link to some text in 3 easy steps.

1.

In your post or page editor click on the link button to insert a link into your text (sometimes this is displayed equally a concatenation icon, in this screen shot it is link)

2.

You are going to put your phone number in the url box where you lot would ordinarily put the website address you lot want to link to, just get-go type tel: in front of your phone number, this gives the didactics to treat the link as a telephone number.

3.

Click Add Link. It really is as easy every bit that!

HTML Code for Click-to-Call Links

When you Google

"How to make a phone number a clickable link"

"How to create a click to call link"

you'll get an answer that talks near HTML lawmaking. Which all sounds very complicated if you don't understand coding, simply with this method all yous need to remember is to put tel: before your telephone number in whatsoever link URL boxes.

If you want your telephone number to announced as a clickable link in other areas of your website where in that location might not be a text editor with the link function, in the header or footer of your website for case, so you lot might demand to apply the HTML code.
Simply don't despair, it's quite direct forrard.

All yous need to blazon is

It'due south of import to think to enter the phone number as ane long string without spaces to create the link. Yous tin then insert spaces into the number you want to display if you desire to separate the surface area code visually.

Y'all tin can really put whatsoever text you want to display, it doesn't accept to be the number, for example on my contact page you can click on the icon, let'south talk or the number and all 3 elements volition open up your call log on your phone to place a call.

Have you got click to call on your website?

Leave a link in the comments so nosotros tin check it out!

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