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How can I remove the sentence that's shown underneath each page that's built using RTD theme:

"Built with Sphinx using a theme provided by Read the Docs."

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It's my understanding that the RTD theme is released under MIT license. My project has one document to group all attributions so I don't want the quoted sentence written under every page. I tried looking at the RTD theme Configuration but there doesn't seem to be an option to remove the default attribution from the footer.

bad_coder
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Clean method

In your conf.py, you can set:

html_show_sphinx = False

as mentioned in the docs.

Dirty method

You can also hide the whole footer with CSS:

# conf.py
html_css_files = ["css/custom.css"]

and in custom.css:

.bottom-of-page {
  visibility: hidden;
}
mincom
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    Perfect answer, it saved me a lot of time. I was about to go down the route of trying to use a custom template to override that part of the default RTD-theme. – bad_coder Oct 16 '22 at 13:07
  • Note that some themes/extensions might require you to credit them (MIT license or similar). So keep that in mind if you decide to completely hide the footer. – mincom Oct 16 '22 at 22:51