As I am currently writing my thesis and stumbled around the problem of borders around any reference (or link) inside the generated .pdf document, I first came around with an solution like that:

usepackage{hyperref}
hypersetup{
  colorlinks=false,
  allbordercolors=white
}

Which worked by setting all borders of hyperref to the color of white and therefore on a white document to an invisible color.

But later on, especially when programmatically writing tree graphs with background colors, this solution didn’t work anymore.

Which is why I needed to change the way of usage to:

usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

instead of the previous block. Now there is no disturbing border anymore and teXing got a little better 🙂

asd