[Tex/LaTex] way to set colors of hyperref links and urls differently in headings / sections than in the body

colorformattinghyperreftitlesec

I know hypersetup from hyperref needs to be added before \begin{document} but after \usepackage{hyperref} and \usepackage{bookmark}.

For example, you can inject it like the following to ensure this:

\AtBeginDocument{\hypersetup{}}

Problem

I'd like to have links (particularly linkcolor) that appear in section headings inherit the color of the section heading (I am using titlesec to redefine all of my headings). This means I would need to redefine / override the original colors defined within \hypersetup{}.

Code

Note that I only kept bookmark in there because of its fastidious relationship with hyperref.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{bookmark}
\hypersetup{
  colorlinks=true,
  linkcolor=red!80!black,
  urlcolor=green!50!black,
  hyperfootnotes=false,
  hypertexnames,
  bookmarks=true}% Causes clash if hyperref parameters loaded before bookmark, because bookmark loads hyperref without any parameters
\renewcommand{\sectionautorefname}{Section}

\usepackage[compact,explicit,noindentafter]{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}[hang]{\bookmarksetupnext{bold,color=blue!50!black,open=false}\color{blue!50!black}\large\bfseries}{\thesection}{1em}{\hyphenchar\font=-1 #1}[\hyphenchar\font=\defaulthyphenchar] % \hyphenchar\font=-1 disables hyphenation, which I reset back to 1 after typesetting the section. see https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/44362/13552


\begin{document}
\section{Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.}
\label{sec:quote}
Margaret Mead

\section{Should not be colored: \nameref{sec:quote}}
This link should be colored: \nameref{sec:quote}. And this one: Section~\ref{sec:quote}. And this one: \autoref{sec:quote}. And this one: \pageref{sec:quote}.
\end{document}

Ouput

Best Answer

You can call \hypersetup{hidelinks} in the "before" part of \titleformat, as this will only affect the section title locally:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{bookmark}
\hypersetup{
  colorlinks=true,
  linkcolor=red!80!black,
  urlcolor=green!50!black,
  hyperfootnotes=false,
  hypertexnames,
  bookmarks=true}% Causes clash if hyperref parameters loaded before bookmark, because bookmark loads hyperref without any parameters
\renewcommand{\sectionautorefname}{Section}

\usepackage[compact,explicit,noindentafter]{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}[hang]{\bookmarksetupnext{bold,color=blue!50!black,open=false}\hypersetup{hidelinks}\color{blue!50!black}\large\bfseries}{\thesection}{1em}{\hyphenchar\font=-1         #1}[\hyphenchar\font=1]

\begin{document}
\section{Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.}
\label{sec:quote}
Margaret Mead

\section{Should not be colored: \nameref{sec:quote}}
This link should be colored: \nameref{sec:quote}. And this one: Section~\ref{sec:quote}. And this one: \autoref{sec:quote}. And this one: \pageref{sec:quote}.
\end{document}

Edit: Regarding Henri Menke's comment about \hyphenchar\font=-1 I will let that be up to the original poster, as he/she seems to have some reason to be using this in order to turn off hyphenation.

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] \autoref with links that include only the number, but not the text, and have counter-dependent colors

A solution with hyperref. Here, the link references are colored and the link borders are invisible. For the link references to be black but the link borders to be colored (as requested in the original question), simply remove the colorlinks option of package hyperref (e.g. by adding a % before colorlinks).

\documentclass{memoir}
  \setsecnumdepth{subsubsection}
\usepackage{xparse}
  % for \RenewDocumentCommand and \IfValueTF (for handling the optional argument)
\usepackage{xifthen} % for \isempty (testing whether the optional argument is empty)
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage[
  colorlinks % comment this line out for colored boxes around the link numbers
]{hyperref}

\usepackage{letltxmacro}
\usepackage{refcount}

\makeatletter
\LetLtxMacro\org@autoref\autoref % "org" stands for "original"
\RenewDocumentCommand{\autoref}{o m}{%
  % test 1: reference defined?
  \@ifundefined{r@#2}{%
    \org@autoref{#2}%
  }{%
    \begingroup
      \def\ar@next{\org@autoref{#2}}%
      % test 2: anchor available?
      \edef\ar@anchor{\getrefbykeydefault{#2}{anchor}{}}%
      \ifx\ar@anchor\@empty
      \else
        % test 3: counter part extractable from anchor name?
        \expandafter\ar@getcounter\ar@anchor.\@nil
        \ifx\ar@counter\ar@dot
        \else
          % test 4: color defined?
          \@ifundefined{\ar@counter autorefcolor}{%
            \def\ar@next{\IfValueTF{#1}{%
              \ifthenelse{\isempty{#1}}{\ref{#2}}{#1~\ref{#2}}%
            }{\ar@autoref{#2}}}%
          }{%
            \def\ar@next{%
              \hypersetup{%
                linkcolor=\csname\ar@counter autorefcolor\endcsname,%
                linkbordercolor=\csname\ar@counter autorefcolor\endcsname
              }%
              \IfValueTF{#1}{%
                \ifthenelse{\isempty{#1}}{\ref{#2}}{#1~\ref{#2}}%
              }{\ar@autoref{#2}}%
            }%
          }%
        \fi
      \fi
      \ar@next
    \endgroup
  }%
}
\def\ar@getcounter#1.#2\@nil{%
  \def\ar@counter{#1}%
}
\newcommand*{\ar@dot}{.}
\newcommand*{\ar@autoref}[1]{%
  \@ifundefined{\ar@counter autorefname}{%
    \@ifundefined{\ar@counter name}{%
    }{%
      \@nameuse{\ar@counter name}~%
    }%
  }{%
    \@nameuse{\ar@counter autorefname}~%
  }%
  \ref{#1}%
}
\newcommand*{\setautorefcolor}[2]{%
  \@namedef{#1autorefcolor}{#2}%
}
\makeatother

\setautorefcolor{chapter}{PineGreen}
\setautorefcolor{section}{ForestGreen}
\setautorefcolor{subsection}{LimeGreen}
\setautorefcolor{table}{violet}
\setautorefcolor{figure}{Mulberry}

\renewcommand*{\tableautorefname}{table}
\renewcommand*{\figureautorefname}{figure}

\begin{document}

\chapter{The only chapter}
\label{theonlychapter}

Text.

\begin{table}
\caption{The only table\label{theonlytable}}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lll}
  1 & 2 & 3 \\
  4 & 5 & 6 \\
  7 & 8 & 9 \\
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}
\caption{The only figure\label{theonlyfigure}}
\centering
A figure.
\end{figure}

\begin{equation}
E=mc^2\label{eq}
\end{equation}

\section{The only section}
\label{theonlysection}

Text.

\subsection{The only subsection}
\label{theonlysubsection}

{
  \parindent0pt % disablement of paragraph indentation
  \setlength{\parskip}{\baselineskip} % empty lines between paragraphs

Text.

See \autoref{theonlychapter}. See \autoref{theonlysection}. See
\autoref{theonlysubsection}.\\
See \autoref{theonlytable}. See \autoref{theonlyfigure}.
See \autoref{eq}.

See \autoref[customtext]{theonlychapter}. See \autoref[customtext]{theonlysection}. See
\autoref[customtext]{theonlysubsection}.\\
See \autoref[customtext]{theonlytable}. See \autoref[customtext]{theonlyfigure}.
See \autoref[customtext]{eq}.

See \autoref[parts]{theonlysection} and especially \autoref[]{theonlysubsection} of
this text.

colors: \textcolor{PineGreen}{chapter}, \textcolor{ForestGreen}{section},
\textcolor{LimeGreen}{subsection}, \textcolor{Violet}{table},
\textcolor{Mulberry}{figure}, \textcolor{red}{equation}.

}

\end{document}

Modifying the counter descriptor

The original \autoref does not support capitalization or plural forms. Two solutions are given here:

1. A manual workaround

The color settings can be specified inside a group, e.g.:

\documentclass{memoir}                                                         
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\newcommand*{\tableref}[1]{%
  \begingroup
    \hypersetup{linkbordercolor=violet}%
    \ref{#1}%
  \endgroup
}

\begin{document}
Tables \tableref{one} and \tableref{two}.

\begin{table}
\caption{First caption}\label{one}
\caption{Second caption}\label{two}
\end{table}
\end{document}

2. Building this into `\autoref`

The \autoref command (as defined above) accepts an optional argument specifying the link text directly. Its syntax is \autoref[customtext]{label}. It can be used as follows: see \autoref[parts]{theonlysection} and especially \autoref[]{theonlysubsection} of this text: if the optional argument is empty ([]), no ~ will be inserted before the textless reference number. (We assume that there will already be an ordinary space before it. Otherwise we can still use it like this~\autoref[]{label}.)

The second approach is necessary if the descriptor is generic and the referred-to entity can change categories (between for example "section", "subsection", and "subsubsection"). Here, \autoref with an optional argument will choose the color of the text or link border automatically, where an approach using \sectionref, \subsectionref, or \subsubsectionref would require the TeX user to choose between the three in the source code.