Using \ref in moderncv class

Question

I have use the \ref function to make an internal reference to another section with \label and \ref{} but my reference is invisible but click able.

Someone has the same problem?

EDIT BY LOCKSTEP: Strange indeed. Here's a MWE (and yes, there's a click able link):

\documentclass{moderncv}

\firstname{John}
\familyname{Doe}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\section{Master thesis}\label{sec:th}
\cvline{title}{\emph{Title}}

\section{Experience}
\cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{See section \ref{sec:th}}

\end{document}

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Actually, it was first posted on Stack Overflow, and wrongly migrated to Cryptography because of me flagging it wrong (mis-click). Sorry. — Paŭlo Ebermann, Oct 21 '11 at 13:40
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As per link formatting colors underlines in cv I can get the box to show up with hypersetup{pdfborder = 0 0 1} after \begin{document}, but this is not very useful to symbolize a link. — Peter Grill, Oct 21 '11 at 20:54
But, what should the now invisible link contain to make it visible? Sections in moderncv don't produce numbering, so there's no string to be picked up to generate a reference; they just contain \phantomsection to create an anchor. — Gonzalo Medina, Oct 21 '11 at 21:01

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 21 '11 at 21:05

The moderncv document class defines a section without a counter. Here's the \section command extracted from moderncv.cls:

% usage: \section{<title>}
\newcommand*{\section}[1]{%
  \vspace*{2.5ex}%
  \parbox[m]{\hintscolumnwidth}{\raggedleft\hintfont{\color{sectionrectanglecolor}\rule{\hintscolumnwidth}{1ex}}}%
  \phantomsection{}% reset the anchor for hyperrefs
  \addcontentsline{toc}{part}{#1}%
  \hspace{\separatorcolumnwidth}%
  \parbox[m]{\maincolumnwidth}{\sectionstyle{#1}}%
  \par\nobreak\vskip 1ex\@afterheading}% to avoid a pagebreak after the heading

Correct referencing is obtained via hyperref's \phantomsection. Hence, \ref returns nothing other than a correct internal hyperlink. This is also evident from the fact that the sections in moderncv is not typeset with a numbered counter.

As such, if you want to have a description associated with the link, you need to use \hyperref[<lab>]{<text>} where <lab> is your label, and <text> is what you want to be clickable. For example, using the posted MWE, you could use

\cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{See section \hyperref[sec:th]{Master thesis}}

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Using \ref in moderncv class

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