markdown - mkdocs search bar is not working after building site

Question

The search bar on the site is not working after building MKDOCS. Whereas when I serve in localhost it's working.

Is there any workaround for this to make use of the search bar after building mkdocs.

Answer 1

Search only works when the site is served from a server. It does not work when you are viewing the files using file://. This is a limitation imposed by your browser's security settings (the JavaScript code cannot access the search-index.json file over file://) and I do not recommend that you disable those settings. You may find a third-party plugin and/or theme which provides a workaround by recreating the index file in a different format so that it can be loaded via a <script> tag rather than an ajax request.