Is HTML still used in 2026?

Yes, and it isn't going anywhere. HTML is the foundational structure every website is built on. Even modern JavaScript frameworks and website builders ultimately generate HTML behind the scenes, it's just usually hidden from whoever's building the site.

What's changed is how much of it people write by hand. Most sites today are built with tools that generate HTML automatically, but the language itself remains the backbone of the entire web, not a legacy technology being phased out.