Remove boxes from hyperlinked ToC in LaTeX

Question

How do I remove the red boxes from my hyperlinked table of contents created by using the hyperref package in LaTeX.

For a broader question, see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/823/remove-ugly-borders-around-clickable-cross-references-and-hyperlinks — Waldir Leoncio, Jan 14 '14 at 14:47

score 65 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 13 '09 at 18:15

65

To remove the borders:

\hypersetup{%
    pdfborder = {0 0 0}
}

The colorlinks option will turn on the link colors and also remove the borders. (This is why alamodey set all the link colors to black.)

answered Feb 13 '09 at 18:15

godbyk

alamodey · Answer 2 · 2009-02-13T22:39:54.020

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\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
    colorlinks,
    citecolor=black,
    filecolor=black,
    linkcolor=black,
    urlcolor=black
}

edited Feb 13 '09 at 22:39

answered Feb 13 '09 at 06:41

alamodey

1

Thanks for this answer, now I can not only remove the border, but also define the colors of the links. – Kelvin Hu Mar 05 '13 at 06:38
Is there a way to set urlcolor to the color of the body text in which the link appears, rather than insisting that color is "black"? – cboettig Apr 14 '14 at 21:47

score 32 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 09 '12 at 20:34

32

Version 6.82a of hyperref, released in February 2011, introduced a new hidelinks option that accomplishes this more easily. All you need now is:

\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

answered Feb 09 '12 at 20:34

Jeffrey Barnes

score 10 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 25 '11 at 23:19

I realize it's a bit late to answer but there's a simpler way, in my experience

\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref}

This will shift hyperref from ugly borders to link coloring, which is what you usually want. See here for more options:

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