⚡ Special HTML Elements

A selection of noteworthy

HTML elements, including uncommon, deprecated, and specialized tags.

According to our statistics, special HTML elements are used on 23.2% of all websites.
82% of these sites use only one special HTML element, 16.2% use two, and 1.7% use three or more at the same time.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading special HTML elements in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Table with an impressive share of 48.5%, followed by Video with 29.1% and Font with 17%.

Table 48.5%
Video 29.1%
Font 17%
Template 14%
Canvas 2.4%
Dialog 2.4%
Object 2.3%
Audio 1.9%
Embed 1.2%
Frame 1.1%
Bgsound 0.06%
Applet 0.03%
Math 0.008%

You can also drill down by country:

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of elements that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

Video is #1 in Australia ^(-1)
Frame is #1 in the British Virgin Islands ^(-9)
Font is #2 in Japan ^(-1)
Template is #2 in Indonesia ^(-2)
Audio is #2 in Bangladesh ^(-6)
Canvas is #4 in China ^(-1)
Dialog is #5 in Germany ^(-1)
Object is #5 in the United States ^(-2)

✨ Top Special HTML Elements

Below is a more detailed list of 13 special HTML elements we detect, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Table Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The <table> HTML element is used to display tabular data in rows and columns.	48.5%
2	Video Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The HTML5 element used to embed and play video content directly in web pages without browser plugins.	29.1%
3	Font Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The <font> HTML element, deprecated since HTML 4.	17%
4	Template Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The <template> HTML element, introduced in HTML5.	14%
5	Canvas Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A standard HTML element used to render graphics, animations, and interactive visual content through scripting.	2.4%
6	Dialog Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The <dialog> HTML element.	2.4%
7	Object Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The <object> HTML element.	2.3%
8	Audio Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The <audio> HTML element, introduced in HTML5.	1.9%
9	Embed Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The <embed> HTML element.	1.2%
10	Frame Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The <frame> HTML element, deprecated in HTML 5.	1.1%
11	Bgsound Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The obsolete <bgsound> HTML element.	0.06%
12	Applet Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The <applet> HTML element, deprecated in HTML 4.01.	0.03%
13	Math Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The <math> HTML element.	0.008%

👉 See Also

✨ Related technologies
- HTML

🗃️ 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 3,602,840 websites.
We currently track the presence of 13 special HTML elements across the web.
Statistics were last calculated on July 28, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.