Format with Hyperref but Disable Links

Question

How can I get hyperref to format the link, but not actually link to anything. For instance, in the Legend section in the MWE below I would prefer that clicking on the links not actually attempt to open anything. But, at the same time, I need hyperref to do formatting of the link so that it is consistent with the rest of the document.

Using \hypersetup{draft} does not seem to have any effect.

References:

• How to disable links completely using hyperref package? shows how to disable all links.
• Selectively de-activate links with hyperref shows how to make the links not be noticeable, but the clicking will still attempt to open the link.

Code:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[colorlinks=false, pdfborderstyle={/S/U/W 1}, runbordercolor=red]{hyperref}

\begin{document}
\begingroup
    \hypersetup{draft}% <-- This has no effect.
    \textbf{Legend:} Want these two links to \emph{not} be clickable
    \begin{itemize}
        \item Web links are displayed as \href{http://www.google.com}{site name} and 
        \item links to local pdf file are displayed as \href{run:foo.pdf}{PDF name}
    \end{itemize}
\endgroup
\medskip

\textbf{Main Document}\par
A good search engine: \href{http://www.google.com}{Google}

A good place for news: \href{http://www.yahoo.com}{Yahoo}

Here is an important PDF file: \href{run:foo.pdf}{My PDF}
\end{document}

Answer 1

I think it would be difficult to avoid links completly but you could use internal links:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[colorlinks=false, pdfborderstyle={/S/U/W 1}, runbordercolor=red]{hyperref}

\begin{document}
\begingroup
    \textbf{Legend:} Want these two links to \emph{not} be clickable
    \begin{itemize}
        \item Web links are displayed as {\hypersetup{linkbordercolor=cyan}\label{anchor1}\hyperref[anchor1]{site name}} and
        \item links to local pdf file are displayed as {\label{anchor2}\hyperref[anchor2]{PDF name}}
    \end{itemize}
\endgroup
\medskip

\textbf{Main Document}\par
A good search engine: \href{http://www.google.com}{Google}

A good place for news: \href{http://www.yahoo.com}{Yahoo}

Here is an important PDF file: \href{run:foo.pdf}{My PDF}
\end{document}

Answer 2

Here is a solution.

The key point is \IfBeginWith command from xstring package

It was hard to find the correct syntax for underlining using \pdfliteral but thanks to this tricks

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[colorlinks=false, pdfborderstyle={/S/U/W 1}, runbordercolor=red]{hyperref}

\usepackage{xstring}
\newlength\mtlength

\begin{document}
\begingroup
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\href}[2]{%
\settowidth{\mtlength}{#2}%
\def\mtl{\strip@pt\mtlength}%
\IfBeginWith{#1}{run}{%
\def\mtcolor{1 0 0 RG}}{%  red
\def\mtcolor{0 1 1 RG}}%   light blue ??!
\pdfliteral{q 1 w 1 J \mtcolor\space 0 -2 m \mtl\space -2 l S Q}#2}
\makeatother
    \textbf{Legend:} Want these two links to \emph{not} be clickable
    \begin{itemize}
        \item Web links are displayed as \href{http://www.google.com}{site name} and 
        \item links to local pdf file are displayed as \href{run:foo.pdf}{PDF name}
    \end{itemize}
\endgroup
\medskip

\textbf{Main Document}\par
A good search engine: \href{http://www.google.com}{Google}

A good place for news: \href{http://www.yahoo.com}{Yahoo}

Here is an important PDF file: \href{run:foo.pdf}{My PDF}
\end{document}