Hidden Field converted to phone number link on iPad and iPhone

Question

I have a hidden field on my page that has a number in it and ipad/iphone tries to make it into a phone number link - making me unable to submit the form (potentially dangerous). If it is a hidden field why is it even doing this? and anyone know how I can fix it?

Answer 1

From the answer to this question, you can remove all auto-formatting for telephone numbers by adding this to the head of your html document.

<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">