9 HTML
9.1 Self-contained HTML
You can share self-contained output files like PDFs or MS Word documents in any usual way: by email, placing on a shared drive, or using cloud storage. You can do the same with other output files but you need to be careful to also share any dependencies of those files.
For HTML output one option is to set the embed-resources option to true:
document.qmd
---
title: Self Contained HTML
format:
html:
embed-resources: true
---When rendered this ensures all required dependencies are embedded directly in output .html file. You can then send, or otherwise share this one file (e.g. document.html) and it will appear the same to your viewers as it does to you.
If your document contains math, and you might view it offline, add self-contained-math: true to ensure the math libraries are also embedded (by default they aren’t because they are quite large):
document.qmd
---
title: Self Contained HTML
format:
html:
embed-resources: true
self-contained-math: true
---