

While a hyperlink usually opens a specific URL, JasperReports broadens the concept, extending it to a more complex object that can be used for more complicated functionality, such as executing a report in JasperReports to perform a drill-down or drill-up operation, pointing to a page within a PDF document, and so on. JasperReports provides a powerful combination of settings to define hyperlinks. Image, textfield, and chart elements can be used both as anchors into a document and as hypertext links to external sources or other local anchors. For HTML5 charts, they are defined in a different way, as described in Hyperlinks in HTML5 Charts. This section describes the creation of hyperlinks for most types of elements.
