I tried another approach which is to use the soft hyphen e.g.Hi, this is from W7 but basically is the same in order to provide an screenshot guide, you must follow only this process: If your phone number is prefixed by the words 'call us on' rather than 'phone' which I initially tested with, then adding a comment inside the number doesn't work. I did run the page through a bot simulator:Īnd the comment didn't show up, so I'm hoping it won't affect Google search.ĬSS would be the best solution for me but is too much of a moving target, so I prefer the 'comment' approach to the javascript one, but I guess different approaches are easier in different cases. The only thing I'm not sure of is how it affects a Google search for the phone number. i.e it stops skype recognising it as a phone number. I tried putting a comment in the middle of my phone number:Īnd this seems to work.

It seems the skype plugin has changed again as the code generated by skype (in my version of Chrome) is different from that shown by Madmartigan I tried the (updated) css as suggested by hans, but it doesn't work in the latest version of Chrome (17.0.963.78 m) You will get a flash of ugliness first, but the setTimeout is necessary because the Skype content is generated just after the page is loaded. The only way I found to deal with this intrusion is by removing the markup with javascript.Įxample using jQuery: tTimeout(function(), 100) // If it doesn't work, set a higher value Of course, we can't really expect our users to do this.Ĭopy and pasting a Skype'd phone number in rich text (like in an email, WYSIWYG or Word document) may end up something like this: begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 55 end_of_the_skype_highlightingĪwful, and there's no definitive way to prevent it.

I was surprised to see so many people misunderstand the desire to disable this from a web developer's point of view, and offer solutions to turn it off by changing browser settings and the like. Apparently the tag no longer works, and the Skype plugin is as intrusive as ever - ruining SKU and part numbers in some instances (incorrectly interpreting them as phone numbers). After searching Google for an answer to this, it seems the issue still persists as we approach the year 2012.

Remove skype sign in