diff --git a/.changeset/format-banner.md b/.changeset/format-banner.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..01ff0258
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/format-banner.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"minimizer-webpack-plugin": minor
+---
+
+Add `formatBanner` and `getBannerPosition` helpers to a `minify` function, so an HTML minimizer can write the `extractComments` banner as `<!-- … -->` at the end.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index beedd214..5bfbec74 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1410,7 +1410,19 @@ The banner text that points to the extracted file and will be added at the top o
 
 It can be `false` (no banner), a `String`, or a `function<(string) -> String>` that will be called with the filename where the extracted comments have been stored.
 
-The banner will be wrapped in a comment.
+The banner will be wrapped in a comment: `/*! … */` by default, or whatever the `minify` function's `formatBanner` helper returns. An HTML minimizer needs one, since a `/*!` line is text in a document:
+
+```js
+minify.formatBanner = (banner) => `<!-- ${banner} -->`;
+```
+
+The banner goes at the top of the asset; a `getBannerPosition` helper returning `"end"` appends it instead, which keeps a document's doctype first:
+
+```js
+minify.getBannerPosition = () => "end";
+```
+
+The source of both helpers is part of the cache key and the `[chunkhash]`, but not the values they close over: a helper whose output depends on such a value must make `getMinimizerVersion` change with it, or a rebuild reuses the earlier banner from the cache.
 
 **webpack.config.js**
 
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 86cc5929..0a672192 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "minimizer-webpack-plugin",
-  "version": "5.10.1",
+  "version": "5.12.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "minimizer-webpack-plugin",
-      "version": "5.10.1",
+      "version": "5.12.0",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@jridgewell/trace-mapping": "^0.3.31",
@@ -11753,9 +11753,9 @@
       }
     },
     "node_modules/fast-uri": {
-      "version": "3.1.6",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/fast-uri/-/fast-uri-3.1.6.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-7Ical1vFEMr0onbVzEDIreM22I4khW+fzyQPwvAFWBp1iwdshSZRsL4jjRvPG9JP1uiqMHRto+YU6R2/CzDz5Q==",
+      "version": "3.1.8",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/fast-uri/-/fast-uri-3.1.8.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-GZMtZUTNRpOVIECoXwLNZS5xUGE+mVNbTB8h/7Rwh2TFWcBQiPzTgyZi05BF9UMZKkLJv8XBRJTlU7zg8+ZfMg==",
       "funding": [
         {
           "type": "github",
diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index 01bb0ea9..77012d34 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -198,6 +198,8 @@ const canUseWorkerThreads = () => {
  * @property {() => string[] | undefined=} getTypes the languages this minimizer minifies, e.g. `["css"]`. Source that carries no filename — what a module embeds in another language's output — is dispatched by this rather than by `test` / `filter`, and a minimizer that declares nothing is never handed any
  * @property {(minimizerOptions?: EXPECTED_OBJECT) => string[] | undefined=} getEmbeddedTypes the languages this minimizer can hand out from inside what it minifies, through the `renderEmbeddedSource` option. Empty (or absent) means it nests nothing a caller can reach, and the option is not passed
  * @property {(compilation: typeof import("webpack").Compilation) => number | undefined=} getStage which `processAssets` stage this minimizer has to run in, named off the `Compilation` it is handed — compressing reads the bytes a user downloads, so it asks for `PROCESS_ASSETS_STAGE_OPTIMIZE_TRANSFER`. Each runs where it asks, chaining through the asset a later pass reads back, and one asking for nothing runs where minifying belongs — after the bundle is rendered and before its hashes are taken
+ * @property {(banner: string) => string=} formatBanner the comment the `extractComments` banner is written as, a `/*!` block comment when absent. An HTML minimizer writes `<!-- ${banner} -->`, a block comment being text in a document
+ * @property {() => "start" | "end" | undefined=} getBannerPosition where the `extractComments` banner goes, `"start"` when absent. `"end"` appends it with nothing between, which an HTML minimizer asks for so that the doctype stays the first thing a document holds
  * @property {() => string | undefined=} getAssetFlag the name this function's work goes under in the asset's info, which is what the asset it wrote is marked with and what stats print. `compress` says `compressed`, another encoding of the bytes being no smaller a version of them; a minimizer saying nothing minified the asset, so `minimized`, and a generator saying nothing wrote a new file, so `generated`. It is also what is not run twice: an asset already marked with every name a function writes is declined, which is how a minified asset a child compilation handed up is left alone
  */
 
@@ -1179,11 +1181,39 @@ class MinimizerPlugin {
               }
 
               if (banner) {
-                output.source = new ConcatSource(
-                  shebang ? `${shebang}\n` : "",
-                  `/*! ${banner} */\n`,
-                  output.source,
+                const helpers = matched.map((i) => minimizerSlots[i].fn);
+                const formatter = helpers
+                  .map((fn) => fn.formatBanner)
+                  .find((format) => typeof format === "function");
+                const positioned = helpers.find(
+                  (fn) => typeof fn.getBannerPosition === "function",
                 );
+
+                // The helpers are the minimizer's code, so one that throws is
+                // reported against this asset like a failed minify.
+                try {
+                  const comment = formatter
+                    ? formatter(String(banner))
+                    : `/*! ${banner} */`;
+                  const head = shebang ? `${shebang}\n` : "";
+
+                  output.source =
+                    positioned &&
+                    /** @type {() => "start" | "end" | undefined} */
+                    (positioned.getBannerPosition)() === "end"
+                      ? new ConcatSource(head, output.source, comment)
+                      : new ConcatSource(head, `${comment}\n`, output.source);
+                } catch (error) {
+                  compilation.errors.push(
+                    MinimizerPlugin.buildError(
+                      /** @type {Error | ErrorObject | string} */
+                      (error),
+                      name,
+                    ),
+                  );
+
+                  return;
+                }
               }
             }
 
@@ -2464,8 +2494,17 @@ class MinimizerPlugin {
             ? fn.getMinimizerVersion() || "0.0.0"
             : "0.0.0";
 
+        // A banner helper changes the bytes written, so its source joins the
+        // identity; only where one is declared, so no other key moves.
+        const banner =
+          fn &&
+          (typeof fn.formatBanner === "function" ||
+            typeof fn.getBannerPosition === "function")
+            ? `|${String(fn.formatBanner)}|${String(fn.getBannerPosition)}`
+            : "";
+
         if (!ref) {
-          return version;
+          return `${version}${banner}`;
         }
 
         // Which module it is, read against the build rather than the disk: two
@@ -2478,7 +2517,7 @@ class MinimizerPlugin {
           )
           .replace(/\\/g, "/");
 
-        return `${version}|${where}|${ref.export || ""}`;
+        return `${version}|${where}|${ref.export || ""}${banner}`;
       };
       const data = getSerializeJavascript()({
         minimizer: Array.isArray(this.options.minimizer.implementation)
diff --git a/test/__snapshots__/minify-option.test.js.snap b/test/__snapshots__/minify-option.test.js.snap
index 8ac4d4a5..c0507516 100644
--- a/test/__snapshots__/minify-option.test.js.snap
+++ b/test/__snapshots__/minify-option.test.js.snap
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 // Jest Snapshot v1, https://jestjs.io/docs/snapshot-testing
 
+exports[`minify option should append the banner where the minimizer's \`getBannerPosition\` says the end: errors 1`] = `[]`;
+
+exports[`minify option should append the banner where the minimizer's \`getBannerPosition\` says the end: warnings 1`] = `[]`;
+
 exports[`minify option should carry the last good code forward when a step in the array returns no code: assets 1`] = `
 {
   "main.js": "(()=>{"use strict";console.log("HERE")})();
@@ -1066,3 +1070,7 @@ exports[`minify option should work: assets 1`] = `
 exports[`minify option should work: errors 1`] = `[]`;
 
 exports[`minify option should work: warnings 1`] = `[]`;
+
+exports[`minify option should write the banner as the minimizer's \`formatBanner\` says: errors 1`] = `[]`;
+
+exports[`minify option should write the banner as the minimizer's \`formatBanner\` says: warnings 1`] = `[]`;
diff --git a/test/minify-option.test.js b/test/minify-option.test.js
index 147f251d..950807f8 100644
--- a/test/minify-option.test.js
+++ b/test/minify-option.test.js
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import {
   getCompiler,
   getErrors,
   getWarnings,
+  readAsset,
   readsAssets,
 } from "./helpers";
 
@@ -229,6 +230,132 @@ describe("minify option", () => {
     expect(getWarnings(stats)).toMatchSnapshot("warnings");
   });
 
+  it("should write the banner as the minimizer's `formatBanner` says", async () => {
+    const compiler = getCompiler({
+      entry: path.resolve(__dirname, "./fixtures/minify/es6.js"),
+    });
+
+    const minify = async (input) => ({
+      code: `<p>${Object.keys(input)[0]}</p>`,
+      extractedComments: ["<!-- @license MIT -->"],
+    });
+
+    minify.formatBanner = (banner) => `<!-- ${banner} -->`;
+
+    new MinimizerPlugin({ parallel: false, minify }).apply(compiler);
+
+    const stats = await compile(compiler);
+
+    expect(readAsset("main.js", compiler, stats)).toBe(
+      "<!-- For license information please see main.js.LICENSE.txt -->\n<p>main.js</p>",
+    );
+    expect(readAsset("main.js.LICENSE.txt", compiler, stats)).toBe(
+      "<!-- @license MIT -->\n",
+    );
+    expect(getErrors(stats)).toMatchSnapshot("errors");
+    expect(getWarnings(stats)).toMatchSnapshot("warnings");
+  });
+
+  it("should append the banner where the minimizer's `getBannerPosition` says the end", async () => {
+    const compiler = getCompiler({
+      entry: path.resolve(__dirname, "./fixtures/minify/es6.js"),
+    });
+
+    const minify = async (input) => ({
+      code: `<!doctype html><p>${Object.keys(input)[0]}</p>`,
+      extractedComments: ["<!-- @license MIT -->"],
+    });
+
+    minify.formatBanner = (banner) => `<!-- ${banner} -->`;
+    minify.getBannerPosition = () => "end";
+
+    new MinimizerPlugin({ parallel: false, minify }).apply(compiler);
+
+    const stats = await compile(compiler);
+
+    expect(readAsset("main.js", compiler, stats)).toBe(
+      "<!doctype html><p>main.js</p><!-- For license information please see main.js.LICENSE.txt -->",
+    );
+    expect(getErrors(stats)).toMatchSnapshot("errors");
+    expect(getWarnings(stats)).toMatchSnapshot("warnings");
+  });
+
+  it("should keep the shebang first when the banner goes at the end", async () => {
+    const compiler = getCompiler({
+      entry: path.resolve(__dirname, "./fixtures/minify/es6.js"),
+    });
+
+    const minify = async () => ({
+      code: "#!/usr/bin/env node\nrun()",
+      extractedComments: ["/*! @license MIT */"],
+    });
+
+    minify.formatBanner = (banner) => `/* ${banner} */`;
+    minify.getBannerPosition = () => "end";
+
+    new MinimizerPlugin({ parallel: false, minify }).apply(compiler);
+
+    const stats = await compile(compiler);
+
+    expect(readAsset("main.js", compiler, stats)).toBe(
+      "#!/usr/bin/env node\nrun()/* For license information please see main.js.LICENSE.txt */",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("should report a banner helper that throws as an error of the asset", async () => {
+    const compiler = getCompiler({
+      entry: path.resolve(__dirname, "./fixtures/minify/es6.js"),
+      bail: false,
+    });
+
+    const minify = async () => ({
+      code: "run()",
+      extractedComments: ["/*! @license MIT */"],
+    });
+
+    minify.formatBanner = () => {
+      throw new Error("no banner");
+    };
+
+    new MinimizerPlugin({ parallel: false, minify }).apply(compiler);
+
+    const stats = await compile(compiler);
+
+    expect(stats.compilation.errors).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(stats.compilation.errors[0].message).toMatch(
+      /main\.js from minimizer-webpack-plugin[\s\S]*no banner/,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("should name a chunk apart when only its minimizer's banner helper differs", async () => {
+    /**
+     * @param {(banner: string) => string} formatBanner the helper
+     * @returns {Promise<string[]>} the emitted script names
+     */
+    const build = async (formatBanner) => {
+      const compiler = getCompiler({
+        entry: path.resolve(__dirname, "./fixtures/minify/es6.js"),
+        output: { filename: "[name].[chunkhash].js" },
+      });
+
+      const minify = async () => ({ code: "run()" });
+
+      minify.formatBanner = formatBanner;
+
+      new MinimizerPlugin({ parallel: false, minify }).apply(compiler);
+
+      const stats = await compile(compiler);
+
+      return Object.keys(stats.compilation.assets).filter((name) =>
+        name.endsWith(".js"),
+      );
+    };
+
+    expect(await build((banner) => `/* ${banner} */`)).not.toEqual(
+      await build((banner) => `<!-- ${banner} -->`),
+    );
+  });
+
   it("should work with source maps", async () => {
     const compiler = getCompiler({
       devtool: "source-map",
diff --git a/types/index.d.ts b/types/index.d.ts
index a5b95f0a..093a19c9 100644
--- a/types/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/index.d.ts
@@ -581,6 +581,14 @@ type MinimizeFunctionHelpers = {
         compilation: typeof import("webpack").Compilation,
       ) => number | undefined)
     | undefined;
+  /**
+   * the comment the `extractComments` banner is written as, a `/*!` block comment when absent. An HTML minimizer writes `<!-- ${banner} -->`, a block comment being text in a document
+   */
+  formatBanner?: ((banner: string) => string) | undefined;
+  /**
+   * where the `extractComments` banner goes, `"start"` when absent. `"end"` appends it with nothing between, which an HTML minimizer asks for so that the doctype stays the first thing a document holds
+   */
+  getBannerPosition?: (() => "start" | "end" | undefined) | undefined;
   /**
    * the name this function's work goes under in the asset's info, which is what the asset it wrote is marked with and what stats print. `compress` says `compressed`, another encoding of the bytes being no smaller a version of them; a minimizer saying nothing minified the asset, so `minimized`, and a generator saying nothing wrote a new file, so `generated`. It is also what is not run twice: an asset already marked with every name a function writes is declined, which is how a minified asset a child compilation handed up is left alone
    */