Clickable Links in Unity Text: Hover, Click and URLs

Last reviewed October 31, 2026

The usual options

• TextMesh Pro. The <link> tag stores an ID and does not change how the text looks. TMP_TextUtilities.FindIntersectingLink returns which link is under a point; click handling, hover and pressed colors and opening the URL are your code. The bundled example scripts handle hover only and read the legacy Input class, which throws when a project uses only the Input System.
• UI Toolkit. An <a href> link opens its URL on click. A <link> tag raises pointer events that are still marked experimental, and hover styling is done by hand with inline color tags and USS classes.
• Helper libraries. Open-source helpers such as FancyTextRendering add normal, hover and click colors and click actions on top of TextMesh Pro's link tags.

How UniText handles links

• Three ways to write a link. LinkModifier with its parse rules recognizes explicit <link=url> tags, Markdown [text](url) and bare addresses such as https://, www., mailto: and tel:.
• Behavior included. With AutoOpenUrl on, a click opens the URL through Application.OpenURL. LinkClicked, LinkEntered and LinkExited fire for your own handling.
• States and styling. Each link range moves through Normal, Hovered, Pressed and Disabled, and the built-in link preset combines color, underline and highlight with rules for each state.
• Any interactive range. The same machinery drives spoilers, @mentions and #tags detected automatically, and your own clickable ranges carrying an ID or an object payload, with keyboard navigation and long-press.
• Scroll views and world space. Viewport adapters keep hit-testing correct inside a ScrollRect and for world-space text seen by a camera.

using LightSide;
using UnityEngine;

public sealed class ProfileLinks : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] UniTextBase text;
    [SerializeField] RangeChannel channel;
    RangeInteractionEvents events;

    void OnEnable()
    {
        events = UniTextInteractions.For(text).Get(channel);
        events.Activated += OnActivated;
    }

    void OnDisable() => events.Activated -= OnActivated;

    void OnActivated(RangeInteraction interaction)
        => Debug.Log($"Open profile {interaction.Range.PrimaryValue}", text);
}

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