---layout: "lesson"
lang: "en"
title: "More on: Cross-referencing"
description: "This lesson shows how you can make links of cross-references by loading the hyperref package."
toc-anchor-text: "More on: Cross-referencing"
---Making cross-references into links
You can make your cross-references into hyperlinks using the hyperref package. In most cases, hyperref should be loaded after any other packages specified in the document preamble.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\section{Introduction}
Some exciting text with a reference~\ref{sec:next}.
\section{Next thing}
\label{sec:next}
More text here.
\end{document}
We have chosen to make the links the same color as the normal text; try removing hidelinks to see why!
