no need to pass the id, just pass in the jquery object itself.  Of course you'll have to change the bits to account for the changed functionality.

Ex:

you used to do:

```JavaScript
common.incrementLabel("#foo");
```

Now you'd do:

common.incrementLabel($("#foo"));

Lastly, any place that you're calling incrementLabel you'll have to apply the same logic of, if you're calling incrementLabel with a given object make sure you save the object as a reference.