Question

I have my view set up with some events and I want to reference, for example, the button element that was clicked because it has a data attribute I need. I want to do it like so:

events: {
    'click #testGadget': 'fireEvent',
    ...
},
fireEvent:  function(){
    var x = $(this).data('iCanHaz')
}

But the ‘this’ variable is scoped to the view itself. I know there’s a way to accomplish what I’m looking to do but I can’t seem to word my question in a way that returns any google hits.

Answer 1

Can simply be done with the event.target property:

fireEvent:  function(e){
    var x = $(e.target).data('iCanHaz')
}

see Event Object doc