diff --git a/markdown-svg-renderer.docs.md b/markdown-svg-renderer.docs.md
index a35c4c34..2025a49a 100644
--- a/markdown-svg-renderer.docs.md
+++ b/markdown-svg-renderer.docs.md
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-View and render markdown content with live preview. Paste markdown directly or load from a raw URL or GitHub Gist, with support for standard formatting, tables, code blocks, and SVG previews featuring tabbed display for rendered output, PNG/JPEG export, MP4 generation for animated SVGs, and source code viewing. Toggle between split editor and full-screen viewer modes.
+View and render markdown content with live preview. Paste markdown directly or load from a raw URL or GitHub Gist, with support for standard formatting, tables, code blocks, and SVG previews featuring tabbed display for rendered output, PNG/JPEG/WebP export, MP4 generation for animated SVGs, and source code viewing. Toggle between split editor and full-screen viewer modes.
 
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diff --git a/markdown-svg-renderer.html b/markdown-svg-renderer.html
index 51a86e77..cdb49f10 100644
--- a/markdown-svg-renderer.html
+++ b/markdown-svg-renderer.html
@@ -499,6 +499,32 @@
   "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@ffmpeg/core@0.12.10/dist/umd";
 const FFMPEG_DOWNLOAD_MB = 31;
 
+// Raster export formats offered as tabs on each SVG block.
+const IMAGE_FORMATS = {
+  png: { mimeType: "image/png", label: "PNG", filename: "image.png" },
+  jpeg: { mimeType: "image/jpeg", label: "JPEG", filename: "image.jpg" },
+  webp: { mimeType: "image/webp", label: "WebP", filename: "image.webp" }
+};
+
+// canvas.toDataURL() silently falls back to PNG when the browser has no
+// encoder for the requested format (older Safari cannot encode WebP), so
+// probe a 1x1 canvas once and hide the WebP tab if it is unsupported.
+let _webpSupported = null;
+function browserCanEncodeWebp() {
+  if (_webpSupported === null) {
+    try {
+      const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
+      canvas.width = canvas.height = 1;
+      _webpSupported = canvas
+        .toDataURL("image/webp")
+        .startsWith("data:image/webp");
+    } catch (err) {
+      _webpSupported = false;
+    }
+  }
+  return _webpSupported;
+}
+
 async function fetchAsBlobUrl(url, mimeType) {
   const res = await fetch(url);
   if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Fetch of ${url} returned ${res.status}`);
@@ -598,6 +624,20 @@
     const shadow = this.attachShadow({ mode: "open" });
 
     this._animation = detectSvgAnimation(code);
+    const webpTab = browserCanEncodeWebp()
+      ? '<button data-tab="webp">WebP</button>'
+      : "";
+    const webpPanel = browserCanEncodeWebp()
+      ? `<div class="panel" data-panel="webp">
+        <div class="image-status">Rendering WebP…</div>
+        <div class="image-wrap" hidden>
+          <img alt="SVG rendered as WebP">
+        </div>
+        <div class="image-actions" hidden>
+          <button type="button">Download WebP</button>
+        </div>
+      </div>`
+      : "";
     const mp4Tab = this._animation
       ? '<button data-tab="mp4">MP4</button>'
       : "";
@@ -771,6 +811,7 @@
         <button class="active" data-tab="render">Rendered</button>
         <button data-tab="png">PNG</button>
         <button data-tab="jpeg">JPEG</button>
+        ${webpTab}
         ${mp4Tab}
         <button data-tab="code">Code</button>
       </div>
@@ -798,6 +839,7 @@
           <button type="button">Download JPEG</button>
         </div>
       </div>
+      ${webpPanel}
       ${mp4Panel}
       <div class="panel" data-panel="code"><pre></pre></div>
     `;
@@ -815,7 +857,7 @@
         panels.forEach((p) =>
           p.classList.toggle("active", p.dataset.panel === tab)
         );
-        if (tab === "png" || tab === "jpeg") this.renderImage(tab);
+        if (IMAGE_FORMATS[tab]) this.renderImage(tab);
         if (tab === "mp4") this.prefetchFfmpeg();
       });
     });
@@ -1007,7 +1049,7 @@
     }
   }
 
-  // Rasterize the SVG to PNG/JPEG at the size the SVG preview is displayed,
+  // Rasterize the SVG to PNG/JPEG/WebP at the size the SVG preview is displayed,
   // by drawing it onto a canvas via a blob URL (same approach as
   // svg-render.html). Runs lazily on first visit to the tab.
   renderImage(format) {
@@ -1017,6 +1059,7 @@
 
     const shadow = this.shadowRoot;
     const code = this.getAttribute("data-svg") || "";
+    const { mimeType, label, filename } = IMAGE_FORMATS[format];
     const panel = shadow.querySelector(`.panel[data-panel="${format}"]`);
     const status = panel.querySelector(".image-status");
     const imageWrap = panel.querySelector(".image-wrap");
@@ -1025,7 +1068,7 @@
     const downloadBtn = actions.querySelector("button");
 
     status.hidden = false;
-    status.textContent = `Rendering ${format.toUpperCase()}…`;
+    status.textContent = `Rendering ${label}…`;
     status.classList.remove("error");
 
     const fail = (message) => {
@@ -1041,7 +1084,6 @@
     const width = Math.max(1, Math.round(this.clientWidth));
     const height = Math.max(1, Math.round((width * ratioH) / ratioW));
 
-    const mimeType = format === "png" ? "image/png" : "image/jpeg";
     const svgBlob = new Blob([code], { type: "image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8" });
     const svgUrl = URL.createObjectURL(svgBlob);
 
@@ -1060,7 +1102,13 @@
       try {
         dataUrl = canvas.toDataURL(mimeType, 0.9);
       } catch (err) {
-        fail(`Could not render ${format.toUpperCase()}: ${err.message}`);
+        fail(`Could not render ${label}: ${err.message}`);
+        return;
+      }
+      // canvas.toDataURL() silently falls back to PNG when the browser cannot
+      // encode the requested format (older Safari has no WebP encoder).
+      if (!dataUrl.startsWith(`data:${mimeType}`)) {
+        fail(`This browser cannot encode ${label} images.`);
         return;
       }
 
@@ -1073,18 +1121,18 @@
       const padding = (base64.match(/=+$/) || [""])[0].length;
       const bytes = (base64.length * 3) / 4 - padding;
       const sizeKB = (bytes / 1024).toFixed(2);
-      downloadBtn.textContent = `Download ${format.toUpperCase()} (${sizeKB} KB)`;
+      downloadBtn.textContent = `Download ${label} (${sizeKB} KB)`;
 
       downloadBtn.onclick = () => {
         const link = document.createElement("a");
         link.href = dataUrl;
-        link.download = format === "png" ? "image.png" : "image.jpg";
+        link.download = filename;
         link.click();
       };
     };
     img.onerror = () => {
       URL.revokeObjectURL(svgUrl);
-      fail(`Could not render this SVG as ${format.toUpperCase()}.`);
+      fail(`Could not render this SVG as ${label}.`);
     };
     img.src = svgUrl;
   }
diff --git a/tests/test_markdown_svg_renderer.py b/tests/test_markdown_svg_renderer.py
index f09474e2..f906f9c6 100644
--- a/tests/test_markdown_svg_renderer.py
+++ b/tests/test_markdown_svg_renderer.py
@@ -185,3 +185,47 @@ def test_generate_mp4(page: Page, unused_port_server):
     assert b"moov" in data
     assert b"avc1" in data
 
+
+
+def test_webp_tab_renders_and_offers_download(page: Page, unused_port_server):
+    unused_port_server.start(root)
+    page.goto(
+        f"http://127.0.0.1:{unused_port_server.port}/markdown-svg-renderer.html"
+    )
+    block = fill_svg_block(page, STATIC_SVG)
+    block.locator('button[data-tab="webp"]').click()
+    panel = block.locator('.panel[data-panel="webp"]')
+    img = panel.locator("img")
+    expect(img).to_be_visible()
+    assert img.get_attribute("src").startswith("data:image/webp;base64,")
+    download_btn = panel.locator(".image-actions button")
+    expect(download_btn).to_be_visible()
+    expect(download_btn).to_contain_text("Download WebP (")
+    with page.expect_download() as download_info:
+        download_btn.click()
+    assert download_info.value.suggested_filename == "image.webp"
+
+
+def test_webp_tab_hidden_when_browser_cannot_encode_webp(
+    page: Page, unused_port_server
+):
+    unused_port_server.start(root)
+    # Simulate a browser without a WebP encoder: toDataURL("image/webp")
+    # falls back to PNG output, as older Safari does.
+    page.add_init_script(
+        """
+        const original = HTMLCanvasElement.prototype.toDataURL;
+        HTMLCanvasElement.prototype.toDataURL = function (type, ...rest) {
+          if (type === "image/webp") type = "image/png";
+          return original.call(this, type, ...rest);
+        };
+        """
+    )
+    page.goto(
+        f"http://127.0.0.1:{unused_port_server.port}/markdown-svg-renderer.html"
+    )
+    block = fill_svg_block(page, STATIC_SVG)
+    expect(block.locator('button[data-tab="png"]')).to_be_visible()
+    expect(block.locator('button[data-tab="jpeg"]')).to_be_visible()
+    assert block.locator('button[data-tab="webp"]').count() == 0
+    assert block.locator('.panel[data-panel="webp"]').count() == 0