Create HTML link That Starts A Skype Call

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March 6th
How to, Web Design -Dev


To create a link that visitors can click on to call a phone number or skype username follow this syntax.
Replace the asterisks with a valid username or number.

Phone Number:

<a href="callto://+***********">Link will initiate Skype to call my number!</a>

Skype Username:

<a href="skype:********?call">Link will initiate Skype to call my Skype username!</a>

MikeGrace: A 25 year old Geek that loves his wife and enjoys tech, photography, outdoors, and his motorcycle.

Discussion

  1. Amy says:
    January 17, 2011 at 4:07 pm

    I like your explanation / visual about the Skype link. Why are the smart quotation marks backwards though?

  2. MikeGrace says:
    January 20, 2011 at 2:09 pm

    Thanks! I don’t remember the app that I used to create the visual but it did that automatically for me.

  3. MAFRI says:
    June 23, 2011 at 3:28 am

    Thx
    help me alot ;)

  4. erica says:
    September 18, 2011 at 5:12 am

    very helpful, thank you!!

  5. Steffen Lempp says:
    October 7, 2011 at 10:52 am

    Love that feature! Is there one for fax numbers as well? That starts the fax app on a computer?

  6. MikeGrace says:
    October 7, 2011 at 12:18 pm

    Haha! Wouldn’t that be awesome! Maybe with the ‘internet of things‘.

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