🆚 MSHTML vs. Notepad++
- 📈 MSHTML is much more popular than Notepad++.
- 🌎 MSHTML is more popular in the United States, China, and Germany.
- 🌍 Notepad++ is more popular in Belgium.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
HTML editor
HTML editor
About
MSHTML is an editor based on the MSHTML component of the discontinued Internet Explorer browser.
Notepad++ is a free source code editor for 
Windows that supports about 90 programming languages with syntax highlighting and code folding.
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington, United States
Paris, France
TridentPricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
MSHTML technology is 12 times more popular than Notepad++.
Total websites
Market share
HTML Editors
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
MSHTML is more popular in the United States, China, and Germany, while Notepad++ is more popular in Belgium.
United States
China
Germany
United Kingdom
Canada
Japan
Russia
Italy
France
Argentina
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the HTML Editors category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the HTML Editors category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the HTML Editors category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in China in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 42nd most popular in Canada in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
MSHTML is more popular than Notepad++ in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Health
Art/Culture/Heritage
Internet Services
Public Information
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.