From d34679d3629e4ea3e192676957e96f33296c3791 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Louis-Philippe Perras <lpperras@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 18:08:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Allowed JQuery object to the element Validator.

---
 jquery.validation/jquery.validation.d.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/jquery.validation/jquery.validation.d.ts b/jquery.validation/jquery.validation.d.ts
index f8b6ca70c5..118b19ef6b 100644
--- a/jquery.validation/jquery.validation.d.ts
+++ b/jquery.validation/jquery.validation.d.ts
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ interface Validator
      * 
      * @param element An element to validate, must be inside the validated form. eg "#myselect"
      */
-	element(element: string): boolean;
+	element(element: string|JQuery): boolean;
     /**
      * Validates the form, returns true if it is valid, false otherwise.
      */

From e8a6d12dc7d0321d5a2b44b655d3f3aa7c7b2391 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Louis-Philippe Perras <lpperras@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 18:09:38 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Updated the tests test JQuery param.

Added a new test to validate that the element union now accepts JQuery object.
---
 jquery.validation/jquery.validation-tests.ts | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/jquery.validation/jquery.validation-tests.ts b/jquery.validation/jquery.validation-tests.ts
index fcc22d2961..5a6a107706 100644
--- a/jquery.validation/jquery.validation-tests.ts
+++ b/jquery.validation/jquery.validation-tests.ts
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ function test_methods() {
     });
     $("#myform").validate().form();
     $("#myform").validate().element("#myselect");
+    $("#myform").validate().element($("#myselect"));
     var validator = $("#myform").validate();
     validator.resetForm();
     validator.showErrors({ "firstname": "I know that your firstname is Pete, Pete!" });