diff --git a/R/sankeyNetwork.R b/R/sankeyNetwork.R
index 839c5d4f..14c3e465 100644
--- a/R/sankeyNetwork.R
+++ b/R/sankeyNetwork.R
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #' @param fontFamily font family for the node text labels.
 #' @param nodeWidth numeric width of each node.
 #' @param nodePadding numeric essentially influences the width height.
+#' @param nodeStrokeWidth numeric width of the stroke around nodes.
 #' @param margin an integer or a named \code{list}/\code{vector} of integers
 #' for the plot margins. If using a named \code{list}/\code{vector},
 #' the positions \code{top}, \code{right}, \code{bottom}, \code{left}
@@ -74,8 +75,8 @@
 
 sankeyNetwork <- function(Links, Nodes, Source, Target, Value, 
     NodeID, NodeGroup = NodeID, LinkGroup = NULL, units = "", 
-    colourScale = JS("d3.scale.category20()"), fontSize = 7, 
-    fontFamily = NULL, nodeWidth = 15, nodePadding = 10, margin = NULL, 
+    colourScale = JS("d3.scale.category20()"), fontSize = 7,  fontFamily = NULL, 
+    nodeWidth = 15, nodePadding = 10, nodeStrokeWidth = 1, margin = NULL, 
     height = NULL, width = NULL, iterations = 32, sinksRight = TRUE) 
 {
     # Check if data is zero indexed
@@ -131,8 +132,8 @@ sankeyNetwork <- function(Links, Nodes, Source, Target, Value,
     # create options
     options = list(NodeID = NodeID, NodeGroup = NodeGroup, LinkGroup = LinkGroup, 
         colourScale = colourScale, fontSize = fontSize, fontFamily = fontFamily, 
-        nodeWidth = nodeWidth, nodePadding = nodePadding, units = units, 
-        margin = margin, iterations = iterations, sinksRight = sinksRight)
+        nodeWidth = nodeWidth, nodePadding = nodePadding, nodeStrokeWidth = nodeStrokeWidth,
+        units = units, margin = margin, iterations = iterations, sinksRight = sinksRight)
     
     # create widget
     htmlwidgets::createWidget(name = "sankeyNetwork", x = list(links = LinksDF, 
diff --git a/inst/htmlwidgets/sankeyNetwork.js b/inst/htmlwidgets/sankeyNetwork.js
index 6b64ed83..54b24133 100644
--- a/inst/htmlwidgets/sankeyNetwork.js
+++ b/inst/htmlwidgets/sankeyNetwork.js
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ HTMLWidgets.widget({
             .style("fill", function(d) {
                 return d.color = color_node(d); })
             .style("stroke", function(d) { return d3.rgb(d.color).darker(2); })
+            .style("stroke-width", options.nodeStrokeWidth)
             .style("opacity", 0.9)
             .style("cursor", "move")
             .append("title")
diff --git a/man/sankeyNetwork.Rd b/man/sankeyNetwork.Rd
index a13f6c26..b8c685b1 100644
--- a/man/sankeyNetwork.Rd
+++ b/man/sankeyNetwork.Rd
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ specifically for Sankey diagrams \url{http://bost.ocks.org/mike/sankey/}.
 sankeyNetwork(Links, Nodes, Source, Target, Value, NodeID, NodeGroup = NodeID,
   LinkGroup = NULL, units = "", colourScale = JS("d3.scale.category20()"),
   fontSize = 7, fontFamily = NULL, nodeWidth = 15, nodePadding = 10,
-  margin = NULL, height = NULL, width = NULL, iterations = 32,
-  sinksRight = TRUE)
+  nodeStrokeWidth = 1, margin = NULL, height = NULL, width = NULL,
+  iterations = 32, sinksRight = TRUE)
 }
 \arguments{
 \item{Links}{a data frame object with the links between the nodes. It should
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ scale for the nodes. See
 
 \item{nodePadding}{numeric essentially influences the width height.}
 
+\item{nodeStrokeWidth}{numeric width of the stroke around nodes.}
+
 \item{margin}{an integer or a named \code{list}/\code{vector} of integers
 for the plot margins. If using a named \code{list}/\code{vector},
 the positions \code{top}, \code{right}, \code{bottom}, \code{left}