I realize that there is a meta tag for disabling the auto formatting of a telephone number in iOS but I wondered if its possible in iOS for things like a date or time.
Anyone have any ideas?
I realize that there is a meta tag for disabling the auto formatting of a telephone number in iOS but I wondered if its possible in iOS for things like a date or time.
Anyone have any ideas?
This isn't possible for dates or addresses. Unfortunately, phone numbers are the only type covered in Apple's documentation: https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/MetaTags.html
There is no meta way at the moment. However there are two tricks to break the detection.
I advise to split the date/time with a harmless HTML element, like a span:
Mon<span></span>day
Another trick is adding a zero-width space:
Mon​day
However this is less stable, for example in the preview text of iOS 6-8, there the zero with space is displayed like a regular space.
Add this tag to your header
<meta name="format-detection" content="date=no">
Or just hide it with css by styling the generated links like
your-element-containg-days a {
color: #000 !important;
text-decoration: none !important;
}
You have to add !important to overrule the generated styling.