diff --git a/html5ever/src/tree_builder/generated.rs b/html5ever/src/tree_builder/generated.rs
index 08f66014..78e1182f 100644
--- a/html5ever/src/tree_builder/generated.rs
+++ b/html5ever/src/tree_builder/generated.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+// This code is @generated. See tests/codegen.rs for more information.
+
 use super::*;
 use crate::tendril::SliceExt;
 use crate::tokenizer::states::{Plaintext, Rawtext, Rcdata, ScriptData};
diff --git a/html5ever/tests/codegen.rs b/html5ever/tests/codegen.rs
index 61168435..86c0d44c 100644
--- a/html5ever/tests/codegen.rs
+++ b/html5ever/tests/codegen.rs
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ fn generated_code_is_fresh() {
         .stack_size(128 * 1024 * 1024)
         .spawn(move || {
             let generated = expand(&input);
-            let formatted = reformat(&generated);
+            let formatted = reformat(&format!("{}{}", PREAMBLE, generated));
             let current = fs::read_to_string(&output).unwrap_or_default();
 
             if formatted == current {
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ fn reformat(code: &str) -> String {
     String::from_utf8(output.stdout).unwrap()
 }
 
+const PREAMBLE: &str = "// This code is @generated. See tests/codegen.rs for more information.\n\n";
+
 /*
 
 Implements the `match_token!()` macro for use by the HTML tree builder