How to write URLs in Latex? [closed]

Question

How do you write a URL in Latex?

The subscripts and everything else make the font look very strange when it compiles.

Serilda

Plus if there are any _s in your URLs, Latex will not be nice to you. – Soonsooner

Answer 1

You can use \url

\usepackage{hyperref}
\url{http://stackoverflow.com/}

Leckie

Is there a way to escape special characters like & or _ automatically, when its part of the url? Those characters are often getting used in URLs as separator for dynamic values. – Acaulescent

Much better: \href{https://example.com}{links label} – Lobito

it doesnt show the second tag \url, what to do? – Horrific

Answer 2

You just need to escape characters that have special meaning: # $ % & ~ _ ^ \ { }

So

http://stack_overflow.com/~foo%20bar#link

would be

http://stack\_overflow.com/\~foo\%20bar\#link

Phonotypy

The \verb command is much less work than that! – Soonsooner

The only problem with \verb is that it uses a typewriter font. I would have suggested \verbatim if that's what he asked for. – Phonotypy

As Gabe and Charles point out, the hyperref package is very good at wrapping URLs that would otherwise cause unsightly overfull hboxes. – Summerwood

This does not work correctly for me. For example, \url{https://asdfg.com\#123} produces # in text, however, the actual link it produces is https://asdfg.com%23123. – Kilogrammeter

Answer 3

Here is all the information you need in order to format clickable hyperlinks in LaTeX:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Hyperlinks

Essentially, you use the hyperref package and use the \url or \href tag depending on what you're trying to achieve.

Chatwin

Answer 4

A minimalist implementation of the \url macro that uses only Tex primitives:

\def\url#1{\expandafter\string\csname #1\endcsname}

This url absolutely won't break over lines, though; the hypperef package is better for that.

Soonsooner