I would like the output of \url{} and \href{} displayed identically. I have changed the color for both to be blue, but it appears as if a different for is being used as well:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue,urlcolor=blue}
\begin{document}
url: \url{www.yahoo.com}
href: \href{http://www.yahoo.com}{www.yahoo.com}
\end{document}
url changes the font but you can set it to default to serif to match \href:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue,urlcolor=blue}
\urlstyle{rm}
\begin{document}
url: \url{www.yahoo.com}
href: \href{http://www.yahoo.com}{www.yahoo.com}
\end{document}
Note that \urlstyle{} is from url which hyperref is loading. (You can use url without hyperref - something I often do, in fact.) I can't see anywhere this is really explained in hyperref's documentation but I only searched the PDF manual and there is a lot more of it so no doubt it is covered somewhere.
If you would prefer the style produced by \href to match the \url default - or if you would like both of them to use a different style, such as sans serif - you can use \url{} to format the link text produced by \href{}:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue,urlcolor=blue}
\urlstyle{sf}% sans for a change
\begin{document}
url: \url{www.yahoo.com}
href: \href{http://www.yahoo.com}{\url{www.yahoo.com}}
\urlstyle{tt}% back to url's default
url: \url{www.yahoo.com}
href: \href{http://www.yahoo.com}{\url{www.yahoo.com}}
\end{document}
\hrefstyle{} equivalent? Interestingly \urlstyle is not mentioned in the hyperref documentation.
– Peter Grill
Sep 20 '14 at 00:31
url changes the font to the default tt family. I have generally used \url to style the text within the \href command or wrapper. Although I assume I originally did that because I couldn't do it with hyperref alone, that was quite a while ago.
– cfr
Sep 20 '14 at 00:34
\listfiles and look at the output. I am pretty sure you will find url listed among the packages. hyperref.sty includes \RequirePackage{url} but it is buried in code I don't understand. EDIT: Yes, I get url.sty 2013/09/16 ver 3.4 Verb mode for urls, etc.. \urlstyle is from that package.
– cfr
Sep 20 '14 at 00:38
\urlstyle command is coming from since this is not really at all obvious.
– cfr
Sep 20 '14 at 00:49
\urlstyle is a feature of package url, which is loaded by hyperref. There is no \hrefstyle, because the second argument of \href can contain arbitrary stuff including images.
– Heiko Oberdiek
Sep 20 '14 at 01:11
\url inside \href is that the link dies, i.e. clicking on it does nothing. The solution with \nolinkurl mentioned in the other answer works better.
– Joris Meys
Mar 19 '18 at 09:40
\url inside the second argument of \href.
– cfr
Mar 19 '18 at 23:10
\url inside \href in a beamer context is that the link dies, at least for me it did. Which is why I needed \nolinkurl to keep them working. Your mileage may vary.
– Joris Meys
Mar 20 '18 at 10:12
The second argument of \href is arbitrary text. If the text should appear as in \url, then \nolinkurl can be used, that acts as \url without the link part, which is already provided by \href.
The font can be changed via \urlstyle, see the documentation of package url
Example:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue,urlcolor=blue}
\begin{document}
url: \url{www.yahoo.com}
href: \href{http://www.yahoo.com/}{\nolinkurl{www.yahoo.com}}
\medskip
\urlstyle{sf}
url: \url{www.yahoo.com}
href: \href{http://www.yahoo.com/}{\nolinkurl{www.yahoo.com}}
\medskip
\urlstyle{rm}
url: \url{www.yahoo.com}
href: \href{http://www.yahoo.com/}{\nolinkurl{www.yahoo.com}}
\end{document}
Check out this solution: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/201952/62165. It might solve your problem. It is based on \href but you could use it as a \url replacement by making the two input parameters the same, ie, \click{www.yahoo.com}{www.yahoo.com}. Aternatively you could modify the \click command to take only one parameter. It doesn't change the background font, which is probably what you are trying to achieve. It ignores all \hyperref defaults.
