[Tex/LaTex] How to change the color of \href links… for real

beamerhyperref

I would like web links generated by the \href command to be colored in my Beamer presentation. Passing the colorlinks option to hyperref leads to navigation links within the PDF receiving (default, ugly) colors. OTOH, without passing that option hyperref doesn't apply any color to links at all.

\definecolor{links}{HTML}{2A1B81}
\hypersetup{urlcolor=links} % Does not apply color to href's
\hypersetup{colorlinks,urlcolor=links} % href's are correct, but navigation links are magenta

Is there a way to tell hyperref to apply a color only to links generated by \href (or \url), and leave navigation links alone? (I know that I could define a command \myhref to do the color-changing manually; I am looking for a solution that uses the built-in facilities of hyperref/beamer.)

Best Answer

You could add \hypersetup{linkcolor=} in order to remove the coloring of internal links used for navigation purposes:

\documentclass{beamer}
\definecolor{links}{HTML}{2A1B81}
\hypersetup{colorlinks,linkcolor=,urlcolor=links}
\usetheme{Frankfurt}
\begin{document}
\section{Test}
\begin{frame}
  \url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}\\
  \href{http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13423/how-to-color-href-links-in-beamer}{Your question}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

works fine for me as you can see in the headline - the navigation link is colored in the default gray tone, while the links are colored in the desired blue.

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[Tex/LaTex] Changing URL colors in headline / footline of beamer template

You can use

\hypersetup{colorlinks,urlcolor=blue}
\addtobeamertemplate{headline}{\hypersetup{linkcolor=.}}{}
\addtobeamertemplate{footline}{\hypersetup{linkcolor=.}}{}

to set the linkcolor to the current color . inside the templates headline and footline.

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Code:

\documentclass[]{beamer}

\usepackage{beamerthemebars}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usetheme{AnnArbor}
\usecolortheme{wolverine}

\setbeamercolor{palette tertiary}{bg=blue,fg=white}
\setbeamercolor{palette secondary}{bg=gray,fg=white}
\setbeamercolor{palette primary}{bg=pink,fg=white}

\beamertemplatenavigationsymbolsempty %hides navigation.

\hypersetup{colorlinks,urlcolor=blue}
\addtobeamertemplate{headline}{\hypersetup{linkcolor=.}}{}
\addtobeamertemplate{footline}{\hypersetup{linkcolor=.}}{}

\author[Coatless]{Lack of Coat}
\institute[Uni]{Uni All}
\date[Date]{\today}
\title[Title]{Fake Presentation}


\begin{document}

\section{Section naught}
\subsection{Subsection Ya}

\frame{\titlepage}

\begin{frame}{First Frame}
\href{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}{StackExchange}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

Additionally there is shorter possibility if only URLs should be colored:

\hypersetup{colorlinks,allcolors=.,urlcolor=blue}

[Tex/LaTex] Change the mailto: in \href

I think you misunderstood something here.

Package hyperref is designed to add a clickable link into the internet to allow to open a special website or to open a mail program to send an email to the defined address.

A computer, exactly an operating system (Linux, Unix, OS x or Windows), can do this only if the information is provided which protocol is used for this service.

So an URL has to be something like that:

protocol://domain.top level domain or email@address

The protocols are http (web side), https (secure connection to website), mailto (email) or ftp (down- and uploads with ftp server) and others, named in the rfc files. hello is there not named!

Examples:

http://tex.stackexchange.com The url for this site
https://tex.stackexchange.com Secure connection to this site
mailto://example@example.com Send email to adress example@example.com.

The operating system can now start -- after knowing the protocol -- the corresponding program. For http etc the used internet browser, for mailto the installed email program. Both, browser and email program are different for different OSs and users. Nevertheless, protocol mailto is known by each operating system, your wanted hello not.

That you have to click on that link is a thing of security, or do you want to get a pdf, filled with thousands of virus containing web pages or other bad thing, and all of them are opened when you open the pdf file to read it? I do not want this, I think you do too?

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