A powerful documentation framework on top of MkDocs

Write your documentation in Markdown and create a professional static site for your Open Source or commercial project in minutes – searchable, customizable, more than 60 languages, for all devices.

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Material for MkDocs reaches end of life on May 5, 2027. Critical fixes and security updates continue until that date.

We're continuing our work with Zensical, a maintained successor built by the team behind Material for MkDocs. It carries forward what we've learned from building documentation tools with this community, with Markdown authoring, a familiar design, and full control over your content. Zensical is Open Source and MIT-licensed.

You can evaluate Zensical alongside MkDocs using your existing mkdocs.yml. Check plugin compatibility and compare your pages, navigation, search, and customizations before switching. The classic theme variant preserves the appearance of Material for MkDocs. See the migration guide for the steps and current compatibility details.

Upcoming changes on November 5

Quick start

Material for MkDocs requires Python 3.11 or newer. Install it with pip:

pip install mkdocs-material

Add the following lines to mkdocs.yml:

theme:
  name: material

See the installation guide for detailed instructions and the documentation for configuration options.

Used by

Material for MkDocs has been used by projects including FastAPI, Pydantic, Ruff, OpenSSL, AWS Copilot, and Google Accompanist.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to everyone who sponsored Material for MkDocs. Your support made its development possible. We're grateful to the contributors, translators, and users who helped shape the project over the years.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016-2025 Martin Donath

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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