diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 11c0ec572d..ef19cc0466 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# stick to click < 8.3.0 to ensure live reload works,
+# see https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/issues/8478
+click<8.3.0
 mkdocs<2.0
 mkdocs-material
 mkdocs-redirects