# Any way to allow href=tel: telephone anchor links in posts?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-allow-href-tel-telephone-anchor-links-in-posts/52263>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [Octobre 31, 2016, 11:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-allow-href-tel-telephone-anchor-links-in-posts/52263 "2016-10-31T11:51:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [Octobre 31, 2016, 11:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-allow-href-tel-telephone-anchor-links-in-posts/52263/1 "2016-10-31T11:51:17Z")

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Hello,

We’d like to put links to telephone numbers in Discourse posts, using the href=“tel:xxxx-xxxx-xxx” protocol. I’ve tried doing so using raw HTML anchor links and with Markdown, but Discourse always removes the href attribute totally and leaves us just with a plain anchor link without a target.

Is there any way I can achieve this? I can’t find a setting to change, so am wondering if it’s possible to escape the string in some way to prevent Discourse parsing and removing this? Since Discourse works so nicely on mobile, it seems a shame to completely prohibit tel: links.

Thanks in advance.

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