Building for offline usage¶
If you want to ship your documentation together with your product, MkDocs has you covered – with support from themes, MkDocs allows for building offline-capable documentation. Notably, Material for MkDocs offers offline support for many of its features.
Configuration¶
Built-in offline plugin¶
The built-in offline plugin makes sure that the site search works when you distribute the contents of your site directory as a download. Simply add the following lines to mkdocs.yml:
For a list of all settings, please consult the plugin documentation.
Automatically bundle all external assets
The built-in privacy plugin makes it easy to use external assets while building documentation for offline usage, as it will automatically download all external assets to distribute them with your documentation.
Limitations¶
Material for MkDocs offers many interactive features, some of which will not work from the file system due to the restrictions of modern browsers: all features that use the fetch API will error.
Thus, when building for offline usage, make sure to disable the following configuration settings: instant loading, site analytics, git repository, versioning and comment systems.