diff --git a/docs/i3-pod2html b/docs/i3-pod2html
index bd797fcbb..e2de51b36 100755
--- a/docs/i3-pod2html
+++ b/docs/i3-pod2html
@@ -4,8 +4,14 @@
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Pod::Simple::HTML;
+use Getopt::Long;
 use v5.10;
 
+my $stylesurl = '';
+
+GetOptions("stylesurl=s" => \$stylesurl)
+  or die "parsing flags";
+
 $Pod::Simple::HTML::Tagmap{'Verbatim'} = '<pre><tt>';
 $Pod::Simple::HTML::Tagmap{'VerbatimFormatted'} = '<pre><tt>';
 $Pod::Simple::HTML::Tagmap{'/Verbatim'} = '</tt></pre>';
@@ -22,8 +28,9 @@ open(my $out, '>', $ARGV[1]) or die "Couldn’t open $ARGV[1] for writing: $!\n"
 my $parser = Pod::Simple::HTML->new();
 
 $parser->index(1);
-$parser->html_header_before_title(
-<<'EOF'
+if ($stylesurl ne '') {
+    $parser->html_header_before_title(
+<<EOF
 <!doctype html>
 <html lang="en">
 <head>
@@ -31,7 +38,7 @@ $parser->html_header_before_title(
 <meta charset="utf-8">
 <meta name="generator" content="Pod::Simple::HTML">
 <meta name="description" content="i3 Perl documentation">
-<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://i3wm.org/css/style.css" type="text/css" />
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="$stylesurl/style.css" type="text/css" />
 <style type="text/css">
 .pod pre {
     background: #333;
@@ -63,7 +70,8 @@ tt {
 </style>
 <title>
 EOF
-);
+    );
+}
 $parser->html_header_after_title(
 <<'EOF'
 </title>
diff --git a/travis/docs.sh b/travis/docs.sh
index b11c097a1..043104a90 100755
--- a/travis/docs.sh
+++ b/travis/docs.sh
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ for f in $(grep '\.html$' debian/i3-wm.docs | grep -v 'docs/refcard.html' | grep
 do
 	asciidoc -a linkcss -a stylesdir=https://i3wm.org/css -a scriptsdir=https://i3wm.org/js --backend=xhtml11 -f docs/asciidoc-git.conf $(dirname $f)/$(basename $f .html)
 done
-./docs/i3-pod2html i3-dmenu-desktop man/i3-dmenu-desktop.html
-./docs/i3-pod2html i3-save-tree man/i3-save-tree.html
-./docs/i3-pod2html build/testcases/lib/i3test.pm docs/lib-i3test.html
-./docs/i3-pod2html testcases/lib/i3test/Test.pm docs/lib-i3test-test.html
+./docs/i3-pod2html --stylesurl=https://i3wm.org/css i3-dmenu-desktop man/i3-dmenu-desktop.html
+./docs/i3-pod2html --stylesurl=https://i3wm.org/css i3-save-tree man/i3-save-tree.html
+./docs/i3-pod2html --stylesurl=https://i3wm.org/css build/testcases/lib/i3test.pm docs/lib-i3test.html
+./docs/i3-pod2html --stylesurl=https://i3wm.org/css testcases/lib/i3test/Test.pm docs/lib-i3test-test.html
 for file in $(sed 's/\.1$/.man/g' debian/i3-wm.manpages)
 do
 	[ -f "$file" ] && asciidoc -a linkcss -a stylesdir=https://i3wm.org/css -a scriptsdir=https://i3wm.org/js --backend=xhtml11 -f docs/asciidoc-git.conf "$file"
