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

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [October 31, 2016, 11:51am 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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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 12:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-allow-href-tel-telephone-anchor-links-in-posts/52263/2 "2016-10-31T12:18:28Z")

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@neil added support for custom URI href protocols so it should work if enabled in your site settings under `allowed href schemes`.

`<a href="tel:1-562-867-5309">1-562-867-5309</a>`

I’m not 100% sure this one will work since it doesn’t follow the `uri://` scheme though.

There are a lot of these:

> **[Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Schemes](http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xhtml)**

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