🆚 CSS vs. Markdown
- 📈 CSS is much more popular than Markdown.
- 🌍 CSS is more popular in all countries.
CSS
MarkdownType
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.
Markdown is a lightweight markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents using simple, human-readable syntax.
It defines elements such as headings, lists, links, images, code blocks, and emphasis through a simple set of symbols like "#*`[]()", and supports extensions for tables, footnotes, and task lists.
Headquarters
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
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.
- 🔥 20th most popular in China in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 26th most popular in Norway in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 27th most popular in Switzerland in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 29th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
YAML
Sass
GraphQL🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.