From 64dcdb97023ca6571b825e5c4ffe30059983e113 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve Baker <_steve_@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:05:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add convenience overload to getDOMNode

---
 react/react.d.ts | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/react/react.d.ts b/react/react.d.ts
index 32249bd347..f7e5f5387c 100644
--- a/react/react.d.ts
+++ b/react/react.d.ts
@@ -117,6 +117,11 @@ declare module React {
 
     export interface DomReferencer {
         getDOMNode(): Element;
+        /**
+        * Use this overload to cast the returned element to a more specific type.
+        * Eg: var name = this.refs['name'].getDOMNode<HTMLInputElement>().value
+        */
+        getDOMNode<TElement extends Element>(): TElement;
     }
 
     export interface Component<P, S> extends DomReferencer {