Remove ugly borders around clickable cross-references and hyperlinks

Question

I know that I can use hyperref to make cross-references and hyperlinks clickable. That makes the clickable areas outlined in fluorescent green, however. How can I make the green boxes go away?

Answer 1

With \usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref} you get active links in \textcolor (usually black) without a box around them.

Answer 2

I use something like

\usepackage{xcolor}
\hypersetup{
    colorlinks,
    linkcolor={red!50!black},
    citecolor={blue!50!black},
    urlcolor={blue!80!black}
}

This gets rid of the ugly color boxes, but uses dark colored fonts which still make it clear that they are clickable.

Answer 3

Well, I see there are a lot of answers already, and they work, however I thought I'd give more detail:

As above, you can use

\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

or

\hypersetup{hidelinks}

However, if your problem is with the ugly green boarder there are very nice ways to remove that, without making it unclear what is a hyperlink.

I like

\hypersetup{
  colorlinks   = true, %Colours links instead of ugly boxes
  urlcolor     = blue, %Colour for external hyperlinks
  linkcolor    = blue, %Colour of internal links
  citecolor   = red %Colour of citations
}

That should be pretty self-explanatory, since I've commented everything so I can keep track of it.

There is also

\hypersetup{frenchlinks=true}

Which replaces the colour with small caps. No idea why it is French, or why small caps, but it is also an option.

There, I felt this helps complete the above answers; Yes, you can remove the box by hiding all the links, but there are other choices out there.

Answer 4

\hypersetup{
    colorlinks=false,
    pdfborder={0 0 0},
}

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Edit: Fortunately, this is no longer needed. Since 2011-02-05 (hyperref version 6.82a), you can use the hidelinks option to achieve the same result; see this answer.

Answer 5

You can also use \usepackage[colorlinks=true, urlcolor=blue, pdfborder={0 0 0}]{hyperref}.

Can add any options of your choice, in order to only have urls without color or anything, use only pdfborder={0 0 0} option

Answer 6

If you are using a modern release of LyX, then these options can be set in Document -> Settings -> PDF Properties -> Hyperlinks -> No frames around links.

Answer 7

As Canageek mentions, there are already a bunch of answers here, but there's another option that I developed in answer to another question, which you can see here: it refines the experimental "ocgcolorlinks" option so that the text is highlighted on screen and not in print, but avoids the boxing that caused weird line-wrapping of the current ocgcolorlinks implementation.

Answer 8

For the sake of completion, if you use qpdfview, check that the option Decorate links is unselected (Edit -> Settings). I spent quite some time finding this was the actual problem!