I’m a huge Skype user – I have a paid account and I use it as my phone, as well as to talk to my work colleagues who also have Skype. It’s a great tool.

However, the Skype toolbar that converts phone numbers in my browser? That’s a little annoying. Granted, I rather like it when I’m looking for a business’ phone number to call and ask a question, but a lot of our design work has a prominent phone number in the header which looks awful after Skype gets helpful.

To disable the Skype Toolbar on a website, add the following in the head of the page:

<meta name="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" content="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE" />

To add back a phone number with the Skype functionality, case-by-case:

<!-- sphoneid telnr="+4168881234" fileas="John Smith" -->416-888-1234<!-- sphoneid -->