diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a3c66f8..1533034 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -175,6 +175,23 @@ plugins: [
 ]  
 ```
 
+All scripts are preloaded with a ```crossorigin``` attribute set to enable CDN's:
+```javascript
+plugins: [
+  new HtmlWebpackPlugin(),
+  new ScriptExtHtmlWebpackPlugin({
+    custom {
+      test: /\.js$/,
+      attribute: 'crossorigin'
+      value: 'anonymous'
+    }
+    preload: {
+      test: /\.js$/
+    }
+  })
+]  
+```
+
 All asynchronous scripts are added as `preload` resource hints.  All other scripts are `async`:
 ```javascript
 plugins: [
@@ -285,6 +302,7 @@ Possibly a more compelling use case is to preload/prefetch dynamically loaded sc
 
 
 Notes:
+- custom attributes will be added to resource hints with the same *script matching pattern*.  This is useful for adding such attributes as ```crossorigin="anonymous"``` - see the Configuration Examples above;  
 - for more on resource hints, see the [`w3c`](https://www.w3.org/TR/resource-hints) definition;  
 - for a more complete solution that allows the preloading\fetching of assets other than scripts, see the [resource-hints-webpack-plugin](https://github.com/jantimon/resource-hints-webpack-plugin).
 
@@ -293,6 +311,9 @@ Notes:
 Change History
 --------------
 
+v2.1.x
+* custom attributes now added to resource hints too (see [pull request 53](https://github.com/numical/script-ext-html-webpack-plugin/pull/53) for discussion)
+
 v2.0.x
 * support html-webpack-plugin 4.x - huge thanks to [@snadn](https://github.com/snadn)
 * support webpack 4.x - huge thanks to [@sherlock1982](https://github.com/sherlock1982)
diff --git a/lib/common.js b/lib/common.js
index cfea95c..8be364a 100644
--- a/lib/common.js
+++ b/lib/common.js
@@ -5,9 +5,27 @@ const separator = '/';
 
 const isScript = (tag) => tag.tagName === 'script';
 
-const hasScriptName = tag => tag.attributes && tag.attributes.src;
+const isResourceLink = (tag) => tag.tagName === 'link' && tag.attributes && tag.attributes.as === 'script';
 
-const getRawScriptName = tag => (tag.attributes && tag.attributes.src) || '';
+const hasScriptName = tag => {
+  if (isScript(tag)) {
+    return tag.attributes && tag.attributes.src;
+  } else if (isResourceLink(tag)) {
+    return tag.attributes && tag.attributes.href;
+  } else {
+    return false;
+  }
+};
+
+const getRawScriptName = tag => {
+  if (isScript(tag)) {
+    return (tag.attributes && tag.attributes.src) || '';
+  } else if (isResourceLink(tag)) {
+    return (tag.attributes && tag.attributes.href) || '';
+  } else {
+    return '';
+  }
+};
 
 const getPublicPath = options => {
   const output = options.compilationOptions.output;
@@ -47,6 +65,7 @@ module.exports = {
   getRawScriptName,
   getScriptName,
   hasScriptName,
+  isResourceLink,
   isScript,
   matches
 };
diff --git a/lib/custom-attributes.js b/lib/custom-attributes.js
index 86f72c0..6459edf 100644
--- a/lib/custom-attributes.js
+++ b/lib/custom-attributes.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ const CONSTANTS = require('./constants.js');
 const common = require('./common.js');
 const debug = common.debug;
 const getScriptName = common.getScriptName;
+const isResourceLink = common.isResourceLink;
 const isScript = common.isScript;
 const matches = common.matches;
 
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ const add = (options, tags) => {
 };
 
 const updateElement = (options, tag) => {
-  return (isScript(tag))
+  return (isScript(tag) || isResourceLink(tag))
     ? updateScriptElement(options, tag)
     : tag;
 };
diff --git a/lib/elements.js b/lib/elements.js
index e32ce4f..90a3b58 100644
--- a/lib/elements.js
+++ b/lib/elements.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ const ATTRIBUTE_PRIORITIES = [SYNC, 'async', 'defer'];
 
 const common = require('./common.js');
 const debug = common.debug;
+const isScript = common.isScript;
 const matches = common.matches;
 const getScriptName = common.getScriptName;
 
@@ -31,8 +32,6 @@ const updateElement = (assets, options, tag) => {
     : tag;
 };
 
-const isScript = (tag) => tag.tagName === 'script';
-
 const updateScriptElement = (assets, options, tag) => {
   debug(`${CONSTANTS.EVENT}: processing <script> element: ${JSON.stringify(tag)}`);
   return (isInline(options, tag))
diff --git a/spec/core-spec.js b/spec/core-spec.js
index 74ccfb3..0546c6c 100644
--- a/spec/core-spec.js
+++ b/spec/core-spec.js
@@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ describe(`Core functionality (webpack ${version.display})`, function () {
     testPlugin(config, expected, done);
   });
 
-  it('multiple customer attributes over multiple scripts', (done) => {
+  it('multiple custom attributes over multiple scripts', (done) => {
     const config = baseConfig(
       {
         async: [/(a|c).*/, 'b'],
@@ -722,4 +722,52 @@ describe(`Core functionality (webpack ${version.display})`, function () {
     ];
     testPlugin(config, expected, done);
   });
+
+  it('custom attributes also added to prefetch resource hints', (done) => {
+    const config = baseConfig(
+      {
+        custom: {
+          test: /.js$/,
+          attribute: 'customAttribute',
+          value: 'xyz'
+        },
+        prefetch: {
+          test: /.js$/
+        }
+      },
+      {},
+      'index_bundle.js'
+    );
+    config.entry = path.join(__dirname, 'fixtures/script1.js');
+    const expected = baseExpectations();
+    expected.html = [
+      /(<script (type="text\/javascript" )?src="index_bundle.js" customAttribute="xyz"><\/script>)/,
+      /(<link rel="prefetch" href="index_bundle.js" as="script" customAttribute="xyz"((\/>)|(><\/link>)))/
+    ];
+    testPlugin(config, expected, done);
+  });
+  it('custom attributes also added to preload resource hints', (done) => {
+    const config = baseConfig(
+      {
+        custom: {
+          test: /.js$/,
+          attribute: 'customAttribute',
+          value: 'xyz'
+        },
+        preload: {
+          test: /.js$/
+        }
+      },
+      {},
+      'index_bundle.js'
+    );
+    config.entry = path.join(__dirname, 'fixtures/script1.js');
+    const expected = baseExpectations();
+    expected.html = [
+      /(<script (type="text\/javascript" )?src="index_bundle.js" customAttribute="xyz"><\/script>)/,
+      /(<link rel="preload" href="index_bundle.js" as="script" customAttribute="xyz"((\/>)|(><\/link>)))/
+
+    ];
+    testPlugin(config, expected, done);
+  });
 });