Getting cleveref to mark all of “Lemma 1” as a hyperlink, not just “1”

Question

I recently discovered the very nice cleveref package, and really like. Works much better than autoref (from hyperref) for me. There is only one thing I don't like: If, for example, the \cref command inserts the text "Lemma 1", then only "1" is a clickable hyperlink. When using \autoref, the whole text is a hyperlink, which I really prefer (it's easier to hit the link).

Is there any way to get cleveref to work like this, too? Preferably one where I do not need to manually redefine the formatting for every reference type individually (i.e. for lemma, theorem, proposition, section, subsection, ...).

Answer 1

Pass the nameinlink option to the cleveref package

\usepackage[nameinlink]{cleveref}

A MWE follows, just for demonstration- see Section 6.2 of the documentation for details

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[nameinlink]{cleveref}

\begin{document}

\section{Here is a section}\label{sec:mysection}
\begin{equation}
    f(x)=x^2+\sin(x)
\end{equation}

\cref{sec:mysection}
\end{document}