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Description

Updating to 8.3.5 renders all navigation links (left side, toc, main, search) non-reactive. They stop reacting to clicks and user cannot navigate the site.

Expected behaviour

Links are clickable

Actual behaviour

you cannot browse the site

Steps to reproduce

Just build the site with 3.8.5, going back to 3.8.4 resolves the issue.

Package versions

mike==1.1.2
mkdocs-material==8.3.5
mkdocs-material-extensions==1.0.3
mkdocs-minify-plugin==0.5.0
mkdocs-redirects==1.0.4

Python 3.10.5 but tested on other versions as well.

Configuration

site_name: Test documentation portal
theme:
  name: material

System information

Tested various browsers, all behave the same