General ⇒ changing colour of links

[juliette]

I know that I can do this:
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\hypersetup{
colorlinks=false, % false: boxed links; true: colored links
linkcolor=red, % color of internal links
citecolor=green, % color of links to bibliography
filecolor=magenta, % color of file links
urlcolor=cyan % color of external links
}
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to make sure that my hyperlinks don't change color.


But what if I want some of my links to change color and some not to?

[localghost]

[…] But what if I want some of my links to change color and some not to?

What do you exactly mean with that? Be more precise. When posting the same request also in another forum, please mention this [1]. It prevents users from wasting time in case that a solution is given already elsewhere.

[1] CQF.info :: View topic - Changing color of links


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[juliette]

I apologize for not mentioning that I posted the same question elsewhere. I was unaware that the two forums were related.

With regards to being more specific:

I have various links to external URLs on the web from my document which I created in LaTeX using \href{}{}.

When I apply this command, the argument of the second {} is displayed in a navy blue colour in the resulting PDF file.

However, for some hyperlinks, I want the colour to remain black and still link to a URL.

And for others, i DO indeed want the link to become navy blue.

Is this possible?

And I posted this response on CQF as well.

[juliette]

Here's the answer. It was posted by user gmedina on CQF.

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
colorlinks=true, % false: boxed links; true: colored links
linkcolor=red, % color of internal links
citecolor=green, % color of links to bibliography
filecolor=magenta, % color of file links
urlcolor=cyan % color of external links
}

\newcommand*{\myhref}[2]{%
\hypersetup{urlcolor=black}\href{#1}{#2}\hypersetup{urlcolor=cyan}}

\begin{document}

\href{http://www.cqf.info}{CQF.info}

\myhref{http://www.cqf.info}{CQF.info}

\href{http://www.cqf.info}{CQF.info}

\end{document}