How to get jquery to find href that is phone number?

Question

I'm trying to get all callable phone numbers out of an html-received with a get:

onload: function (data)
{
    data = $.parseHTML(data.response);
    var content = $.trim($(data).find('[href^=callto:]').text());
    console.log(content)
    //var content= $(data).find('.');
}

The data is correct, i successfully found find('.tel'), a class used in the html.

Probably your links are at the top level of the `$.parseHTML` result array. Use `filter` instead of `find`. (If this is your problem, here's a very closely related question: [jQuery() not finding elements inside of results from jQuery.parseHTML()](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15403600/jquery-not-finding-elements-inside-of-results-from-jquery-parsehtml).) — apsillers, Jul 30 '13 at 17:10

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 30 '13 at 16:52

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$('a[href^="tel:"]') will give you all anchors with a tel: scheme.

Using your sample code: data.find('a[href^="tel:"]')

answered Jul 30 '13 at 16:52

André Dion

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that's not he problem, the html I'm using uses callto: forexample: view-source:http://personer.eniro.se/resultat/Erkan%20Salievski/216%2030%20LIMHAMN – Himmators Jul 30 '13 at 16:56
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So change it to `data.find('a[href^="callto:"]')` – André Dion Jul 30 '13 at 16:57
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FYI, `tel:` is the generic scheme for phone numbers. `callto:` seems to be a Skype thing. – André Dion Jul 30 '13 at 16:58

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 11 '18 at 15:40

This is how I managed to resolve this problem on my end. :)

/* All phone numbers to href */
var regex = /\(?([0-9]{3})\)?([ .-]?)([0-9]{3})\2([0-9]{4})/;
$('tr td:nth-child(3)').each(function() {
    var text = $(this).html();
    text = text.replace(regex, "<a href=\"tel:$&\">$&</a>");
    $(this).html(text);
});

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 29 '18 at 18:43

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The colon is a special character in jQuery selectors. You should escape it like this: $(data).find('[href^=callto\\:]')

answered Jan 29 '18 at 18:43

Petko Bossakov

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How to get jquery to find href that is phone number?

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