Question

I am using very similar code to the Backbone ToDo example – http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/todos.html.

After I insert a new model into the collection, I sort the collection. The todo example appends the new data to the end of the view

  var view = new TodoView({model: todo});
  $("#todo-list").append(view.render().el);

I want to insert my model data into the view according to its position within the collection and not merely to last place. Any idea how to do this?

Answer 1

First get the index of the newly added model in the collection (after the sort ). You can get it with the underscore method indexOf i.e. index = todoColl.indexOf(todo);.

Then use the :eq() jQuery selector to get the item currently at this position in the list, and .before() your new item, i.e. $("li:eq(" + index.toString() + ")").before(view.render().el); (assuming the view renders a li element). Careful, add code to manage the case if the new item is last (in which case the jQuery selector will be empty).