LaTeX hyperref link goes to wrong page when i clicked at the content there

Question

i would like to ask how to use the \hyperref because i've googled loads of loads of answers but i can't find. i've created my own TOC. then i included \hyperref package. Then the contents are automatically hyperlinks which is good. but then it went to the wrong pages. i've googled a lot but i couldn't find answer. The contents that i clicked goes to the wrong page.

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{report}

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{enumerate}

\usepackage{hyperref}
% %\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}


% %\renewcommand*{\contentsname}{\hyperlink{contents}{Contents}}
% %\renewcommand*{\contentsname}{\hyperref[contents]{\arabic{page}}}

\begin{document}

\input{coverPage}
\maketitle

\tableofcontents
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Table of Contents}
\pagebreak

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}
\listoffigures
\pagebreak

% % (1) ==============================================
\setcounter{chapter}{1}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{1. Introduction}
\input{introduction}
\pagebreak

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{2. References}
\input{references}
\pagebreak

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{3. Glossary}
\input{glossary}
\pagebreak

\end{document}

Bonn

Use \cleardoublepage\phantomsection\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\contentsname}\tableofcontents. The bigger question is: Why are you inserting this manually? – Pallbearer

@Pallbearer my lecturer thought us how to do this.. i dont know any other better way to add contents.. lol is there any automatic way other than this manual way? – Bonn

You should use \chapter{<chap title>} to insert a chapter. I've guessing you're doing something different inside introduction.tex and others. – Pallbearer

@Pallbearer Do you want to write an answer? Or close as unclear? – Alodie

Answer 1

The issue here is that \chapter sets itself on a new page, so issuing \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{<chapter title>} before \chapter may point to an incorrect page.

Also, your \tableofcontents might be more than a single page. So, issuing \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Table of Contents} after \tableofcontents - a \chapter* - might again point to an incorrect page.

The best solution is to use the following setup:

\cleardoublepage
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{<chapter title>}
% <your \chapter or \chapter*>

This will ensure that \addcontentsline is issued on the same page as \chapter or \chapter*.

Pallbearer