diff --git a/src/LiquidHighlightTag.js b/src/LiquidHighlightTag.js
index e782ee9..a6b0dcf 100644
--- a/src/LiquidHighlightTag.js
+++ b/src/LiquidHighlightTag.js
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class LiquidHighlightTag {
             return token.raw || token.getText();
           });
           let tokenStr = tokens.join("").trim();
-          console.log(this.args);
+
           return Promise.resolve(
             HighlightPairedShortcode(tokenStr, this.args, options)
           );
diff --git a/src/getAttributes.js b/src/getAttributes.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..603c6a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/getAttributes.js
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+function attributeEntryToString(attribute, context) {
+  let [key, value] = attribute;
+
+  if (typeof value === "function") { // Callback must return a string or a number
+    value = value(context); // Run the provided callback and store the result
+  }
+
+  if (typeof value !== "string" && typeof value !== "number") {
+    throw new Error(
+      `Attribute "${key}" must have, or evaluate to, a value of type string or number, not "${typeof value}".`
+    );
+  }
+
+  return `${key}="${value}"`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ## Usage
+ * The function `getAttributes` is used to convert an object, `attributes`, with HTML attributes as keys and the values as the corresponding HTML attribute's values.
+ * If it is falsey, an empty string will be returned.
+ *
+ * ```js
+  getAttributes({
+    tabindex: 0,
+    'data-language': function (context) { return context.language; },
+    'data-otherStuff': 'value'
+  }) // => ' tabindex="0" data-language="JavaScript" data-otherStuff="value"'
+  ```
+ *
+ * @param {{[s: string]: string | number}} attributes An object with key-value pairs that represent attributes.
+ * @param {object} context An object with the current context.
+ * @param {string} context.content The code to parse and highlight.
+ * @param {string} context.language The language for the current instance.
+ * @param {object} context.options The options passed to the syntax highlighter.
+ * @returns {string} A string containing the above HTML attributes preceded by a single space.
+ */
+function getAttributes(attributes, context = {}) {
+  let langClass = context.language ? `language-${context.language}` : "";
+
+  if (!attributes) {
+    return langClass ? ` class="${langClass}"` : "";
+  } else if (typeof attributes === "object") {
+    if(!("class" in attributes) && langClass) {
+      // class attribute should be first in order
+      let tempAttrs = { class: langClass };
+      for(let key in attributes) {
+        tempAttrs[key] = attributes[key];
+      }
+      attributes = tempAttrs;
+    }
+
+    const formattedAttributes = Object.entries(attributes).map(
+      entry => attributeEntryToString(entry, context)
+    );
+
+    return formattedAttributes.length ? ` ${formattedAttributes.join(" ")}` : "";
+  } else if (typeof attributes === "string") {
+    throw new Error("Syntax highlighter plugin custom attributes on <pre> and <code> must be an object. Received: " + JSON.stringify(attributes));
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = getAttributes;