🆚 HTML vs. Markdown

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.

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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.

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Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Standards category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Standards category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Norway in the Standards category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the Standards category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Bangladesh in the Standards category.

• 🔥 17th most popular in China in the Standards category.
• 🔥 19th most popular in Taiwan in the Standards category.
• 🔥 20th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
• ⬆️ 21st most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the Standards category.
• ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Norway in the Standards category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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