🆚 CSS vs. HTML
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 CSS is as popular as HTML.
- 🌎 CSS is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 HTML is more popular in Germany, Indonesia, and South Africa.
CSSType
About
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to control the presentation of HTML and XML documents, defining layout, colors, typography, and responsive behavior across different devices.
It uses a cascading and specificity model to resolve style conflicts, supports reusable rules and selectors, and includes layout systems such as Flexbox and Grid, media queries for responsive design, and features for animations, transformations, and advanced text formatting.
Modern CSS features enable complex responsive interfaces and dynamic styling without JavaScript, including container queries, the :has() pseudo-class, the light-dark() function, native nesting, subgrid layouts, custom properties, and view transitions.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language used to create web pages and is the de facto standard for documents displayed in web browsers.
It defines the structure of web content using elements for text, links, images, forms, tables, and embedded media, organizes documents into a hierarchical DOM, and enables hyperlinking between pages, which is a fundamental mechanism of the World Wide Web.
HTML5 expanded HTML into a platform for web applications by introducing native audio and video elements, the canvas API for rendering graphics, Web Storage for client-side data persistence, Web Workers for background processing, the Geolocation API for location-based data, and WebSocket for real-time communication.
Headquarters
w3.org/TR/CSS/Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in South Africa in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Norway in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Philippines in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
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