[Tex/LaTex] Changing moderncv link color of href

moderncv

I'm using moderncv and by default the links I set via \href{}{} seem to have the same color as normal text. How do I change their color?

I tried to add (according to How to change the color of \href links… for real):

\definecolor{links}{HTML}{2A1B81}
\hypersetup{colorlinks,linkcolor=,urlcolor=links}

The document failed building with

Undefined control sequence. l.33 \hypersetup 
{colorlinks,linkcolor=,urlcolor=links}

Another failed try was:

\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=black]{hyperref}

That gave the error:

LaTeX Error: Option clash for package hyperref.

Best Answer

Here is a solution.

hyperref is loaded at the end of the preamble with \AtEndPreamble. We need to pass colorlinks,linkcolor=true options to the package, one way is to make it global \documentclass[colorlinks,linkcolor=true]{moderncv} and than \hypersetup{urlcolor=thecolor} after \begin{document}

MWE

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,colorlinks,linkcolor=true]{moderncv}
\moderncvstyle{casual} 
\moderncvcolor{blue}
\name{Some}{One}
\title{some title} 
\address{10, address}{city}{Country}
\email{someone@myemail.com}
\homepage{www.mypage.com}

\begin{document}
\makecvtitle

\cventry{2015--2016}{Recherche}{Bla bla}{Foo bar}{More bla bla}%
{Last bla bla}

\cvitem{bla bla}{Foo bar}

\href{http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/275848/71471}{Defaut color}

\definecolor{links}{HTML}{2A1B81}
\hypersetup{urlcolor=links}
\href{http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/275848/71471}{Your color}

\end{document}

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If you only want to fit the text on one page than I recommend the simple pragmatic approach of adjusting the spaces manually using some \vspace* with a negative value, normally a factor of \baselineskip.

The following fits the last two lines on the page which are just too much to fit otherwise:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{moderncv}

% moderncv themes
\moderncvtheme[blue]{casual}                 % optional argument are 'blue' (default), 'orange', 'red', 'green', 'grey' and 'roman' (for roman fonts, instead of sans serif fonts)

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}                   % replace by the encoding you are using

\usepackage[scale=0.8]{geometry}
\recomputelengths                             % required when changes are made to page layout lengths

% personal data
\firstname{first}
\familyname{last}
%\quote{}               % optional, remove the line if not wanted
\address{123 First St}{Somewhere, CA 90210}    % optional, remove the line if not wanted
\mobile{555.555.5555}                    % optional, remove the line if not wanted
\email{me@me.com}                      % optional, remove the line if not wanted
\extrainfo{info} % optional, remove the line if not wanted

\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\vspace*{-2\baselineskip}
\maketitle
\vspace{-1.5\baselineskip}
\section{Summary}
\cvline{}{\lipsum[1-2]}

\section{Technical Skills}
\cvline{A great skill}{\lipsum[3]}

\section{Experience}
\cventry{2000--present}{Space occupier}{freelance}{San Francisco}{}{%
\lipsum[5]
two more lines two more lines two more lines two more lines two more lines two more
two more lines two more lines two more lines two more lines two more lines two more
}

\closesection{}                   % needed to renewcommands
\renewcommand{\listitemsymbol}{-} % change the symbol for lists

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Link formatting: colors, underlines in moderncv

That is because moderncv.cls sets pdfborder to 0 0 0 at the beginning of the document; here's the relevant code:

\AtEndPreamble{
  \@ifpackageloaded{CJK}
    {\RequirePackage[CJKbookmarks]{hyperref}}
    {\RequirePackage[pdftex]{hyperref}}
  \AtBeginDocument{
    \hypersetup{
      breaklinks,
      baseurl       = http://,
      pdfborder     = 0 0 0,
      pdfpagemode   = UseNone,% do not show thumbnails or bookmarks on opening
%      pdfstartview  = FitH,
      pdfstartpage  = 1,
      pdfcreator    = \LaTeX{} with `moderncv' package,
      pdfproducer   = \LaTeX{},
      bookmarksopen = true,
      pdfauthor     = \@firstname~\@familyname,
      pdftitle      = \@title,
      pdfsubject    = \@firstname~\@familyname,
      pdfkeywords   = \@firstname~\@familyname{} curriculum vit\ae{}}}
  \pagenumbering{arabic}% has to be issued after loading hyperref
}

EDIT: now I understand the request a little bit better (I hope); initially I thought that all the urls should have a colored border and I proposed some solution, now I see that it's just about some urls being colored. Taking this into account, I offer another solution:

I defined a new command \Colorhref with one optional argument (the color for the urls, default=cyan) and two mandatory arguments that will be passed to the standard \href command (\Colorhref also takes care of the change in font size). In your document you can use \Colorhref if you want your url with color and \href otherwise. Use the standard moderncv class:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{moderncv}
\moderncvtheme[blue]{casual}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[scale=0.8]{geometry}
\firstname{Adam}
\familyname{Matan}
\email{adam@matan.name}
\homepage{www.matan.name}

\newcommand\Colorhref[3][cyan]{\href{#2}{\small\color{#1}#3}}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{Professional network}

\cvline{Linkedin.com}        {\Colorhref{http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamatan}             {Adam Matan}   - Professional profile and links.    }
\cvline{Stackoverflow.com}   {\small\href{http://stackoverflow.com/users/51197/adam-matan} {Adam Matan}   - My software questions and answers. } 
\cvline{twitter.com}         {\Colorhref[red]{http://twitter.com/justnoticed}{@justnoticed} - My tech tweets.}

\end{document}

Here's the result of the compilation of the above example code:

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