[Tex/LaTex] Problem with Hyperref. Only shows text and not any clickable link

hyperlinkhyperref

Hi I am using TeXmaker (version 4.4.1 (compiled with Qt 5.4.2 and Poppler 0.38.0)) to compile LaTeX. I am facing problem with hyperlinks. None of my hyperlinks are clickable. They don't even follow the format I have specified in the hypersetup arguments.

I have written the following script:

\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
    colorlinks=true,
    linkcolor=blue,      
    urlcolor=cyan,
}

\urlstyle{same}


\begin{document}

\href{url address}{sample text}

\end{document}

This does print the sample text but it just appears as text.

Not sure what's the problem or how to debug.

EDIT: I have used to documentclass line. Didn't put it here, sorry. Here is the code before \hyperref 

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,draft]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[left=2cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}

EDIT 2 :I compile PDFLaTeX. Then use Document Veiwer (Ubuntu 16.04) to view PDFs. I used Adobe Acrobat Reader with WINE too. Same problem persists with hyperlink.

Best Answer

Based on your given code you need to comment class option draft to get hyperlinks.

Please see the manual for package hyperref (texdoc hyperref -- manual.pdf):

manual hyperref

Please see the follwowing MWE (important code changing marked with <=======)

\documentclass[%
  12pt,
  a4paper,
% draft     % <=========================================================
]{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[left=2cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}

\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
  colorlinks=true,
  linkcolor=blue,
  urlcolor=cyan,
}
\urlstyle{same}


\begin{document}

\href{url address}{sample text}

\end{document}

with the following resulting pdf:

resulting pdf

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