From ef311e6fb1dfa9bfc89b09f5045fed8f126986bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julien Chichignoud <julien.chichignoud@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:12:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add_widget() now returns the newly created widget

---
 README.md        | 2 +-
 src/gridstack.js | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0799bc3..a930276 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ $('.grid-stack').on('resizestop', function (event, ui) {
 
 ### add_widget(el, x, y, width, height, auto_position)
 
-Creates new widget.
+Creates new widget and returns it.
 
 Parameters:
 
diff --git a/src/gridstack.js b/src/gridstack.js
index 8accee8..3e30cb3 100644
--- a/src/gridstack.js
+++ b/src/gridstack.js
@@ -582,6 +582,8 @@
         this.container.append(el);
         this._prepare_element(el);
         this._update_container_height();
+
+        return el;
     };
 
     GridStack.prototype.will_it_fit = function (x, y, width, height, auto_position) {