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# Building for offline usage
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If you want to ship your documentation together with your product, MkDocs has
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you covered – with support from themes, [MkDocs] allows for building
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offline-capable documentation. Notably, Material for MkDocs offers offline
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support for many of its features.
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[MkDocs]: https://www.mkdocs.org
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## Configuration
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### Built-in offline plugin
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[:octicons-tag-24: 9.0.0][offline support] ·
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:octicons-cpu-24: Plugin
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The built-in offline plugin makes sure that the [site search] works when you
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distribute the contents of your [site directory] as a download. Simply add
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the following lines to `mkdocs.yml`:
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``` yaml
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plugins:
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- offline
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```
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The plugin will automatically disable the [`use_directory_urls`][use_directory_urls]
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setting, ensuring that users can open your documentation directly from the local
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file system.
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The following configuration options are available:
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[`enabled`](#+offline.enabled){ #+offline.enabled }
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: :octicons-milestone-24: Default: `true` – This option specifies whether
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the plugin is enabled when building your project. If you want to switch
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the plugin off, e.g. for local builds, use an [environment variable]:
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``` yaml
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plugins:
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- offline:
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enabled: !ENV [OFFLINE, false]
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```
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Now, after invoking `mkdocs build`, you can open `site/index.html` directly
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in your browser and the [site search] will work as if the documentation was
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hosted on a regular server.
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!!! tip "Automatically bundle all external assets"
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The [built-in privacy plugin] makes it easy to use external assets
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while building documentation for offline usage, as it will automatically
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download all external assets to distribute them with your documentation.
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[offline support]: https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/releases/tag/9.0.0
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[site search]: setting-up-site-search.md
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[site directory]: https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/configuration/#site_dir
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[use_directory_urls]: https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/configuration/#use_directory_urls
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[environment variable]: https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/configuration/#environment-variables
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[built-in privacy plugin]: ensuring-data-privacy.md#built-in-privacy-plugin
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#### Limitations
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Material for MkDocs offers many interactive features, some of which will not
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work from the file system due to the restrictions of modern browsers: all
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features that use the `fetch` API will error.
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Thus, when building for offline usage, make sure to disable the following
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configuration settings: [instant loading], [site analytics], [git repository],
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[versioning] and [comment systems].
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[Instant loading]: setting-up-navigation.md#instant-loading
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[Site analytics]: setting-up-site-analytics.md
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[Versioning]: setting-up-versioning.md
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[Git repository]: adding-a-git-repository.md
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[Comment systems]: adding-a-comment-system.md
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