Qwen3.6 35B - TXT vs Markdown vs HTML vs HTML+CSS

Theres been talk of late about using HTML rather than markdown in Claude Code. I was curious how this worked with a local model so loaded up Qwen3.6 35B A3B at Q8 and F16 KV cache. Then I gave it the same prompt write a detailed explanation of the Blazor render cycle first asking for raw text, then markdown, then unstyled HTML, then HTML+CSS, and finally with no constraint (where it chose markdown). I measured the token counts for reasoning, total response (including the md or HTML formatting) and the raw response content stripped of formatting.