I'm doing a newsletter design and there's a text with a phone number. In many email clients it looks as supposed to but in Gmail it turns the numbers string into a tel:// link to call with gmail's built in diales.

The problem is that the original text was in white and now that Gmail turned it into a link is a darkish blue which completely ruins the design.

Is there a way to avoid gmail to convert it into a phone link or to specify which color it will turn into?

I thought of placing a 123456 so it's already a link, but people reading the email in email clients which doesn't support tel:// links wil be mislead.

Any ideas?

Thanks

• html-email
• email-client

I solved it!:

I did a 123456 to the exact same "selection" of string gmail was replacing with link and no href is being added, lost the call functionality though

If you're sending the email as html, you should be able to specify css rules to change link colors. Also, you might try putting the phone number in a < pre > tag.