hyperref not working. It goes to wrong page

There are multiple issues with the O.P. code...

  • Use \cleardoublepage\phantomsection\addcontentsline{...} if some content must be explicitly added to a ToC
  • For the Table of Contents and List of Figures \usepackage{tocbibind} is the cleaner solution
  • The Introduction should be real chapter and not something with \section and subsection. This screws up the bookmarking etc. and numbering.
  • The \input is too much for my taste -- It makes editing (and debugging) very difficult.

Some notes on \phantomsection etc.

If content is to be added to a .toc etc. file, \addcontentsline{toc}{...}{...} is most times the right choice. However, if this happens without a \cleardoublepage (or \clearpage) in conjunction with \phantomsection, the link will go to a previous page.

The \phantomsection can be omitted however, if a command like \chapter* etc. is used. An anchor related to chapter* is inserted by hyperref then. For more information, see section

3.2 Options for destination names

in the hyperref manual please.


\documentclass[12pt, a4paper, oneside]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{mathptmx} %times font
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[english]{babel} %roman & arabic label page
\usepackage[top=50mm , bottom=50mm, left=45mm, right=45mm]{geometry}

\addto\captionsenglish{% Replace "english" with the language you use
\renewcommand{\contentsname}%
{Table of Contents}% change "Contents" (default) to "Table of Contents"
}

\title{Foo}
\author{Foo}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{tocbibind}

\usepackage{hyperref}

\hypersetup{
colorlinks=true, %set true if you want colored links
linktoc=all,     %set to all if you want both sections and subsections linked
linkcolor=black,  %choose some color if you want links to stand out
}

\pagenumbering{Roman}

\begin{document}
\input{CoverPage}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\cleardoublepage
\input{TitlePage}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\cleardoublepage

\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Copyright}
\input{CopyrightPage}
\setcounter{page}{1}
\cleardoublepage

\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Declaration}
\input{DeclarationPage}
\cleardoublepage

\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgement}
\input{AcknowledgementPage}
\cleardoublepage

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

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

% % (1) =========================================
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{1. Introduction}
\input{Introduction}
\setcounter{chapter}{1}  % Why???



\end{document}

For the individual FooPage.tex files I used basically this code

\chapter*{Foo}  % To make the page header outstanding, just for this solution
\blindtext[2]

Replace Foo with the relevant name (Exception: TitlePage.tex is \maketitle only)

The individual \phantomsection commands aren't necessary if \chapter* etc is used, but I kept them, since it's unclear what's inside the real \input{...} files.

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