Illustrator hyperlink not working

Adding a link to text is such an easy task to do when you’re working on (text-based) documents and emails, but in Adobe Illustrator, it’s completely a different story.

There isn’t a quick action that you can add hyperlinks to text in Adobe Illustrator and the steps are somewhat complicated (for new users). 

You might’ve seen a couple of ways to add hyperlinks in Illustrator, such as using the Attribute panel or Slice Tool, but honestly, after trying out all the methods myself, there is only one best way to add hyperlinks to text and images in a non-destructive way. 

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you the best and easiest way to add Hyperlinks to text and images in Adobe Illustrator. 

Note: Screenshots from this tutorial are taken from Adobe Illustrator CC Mac version.

Windows or other versions can look different.

How to Add Hyperlinks to Text or Images in Adobe Illustrator

You know that even if you typed out an URL in Adobe Illustrator when people click on it, it wouldn’t open the web page, right?

If you want to make it a clickable option, you need to

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