Question

I know that I can use jQuery to access the view’s element in backbone.js by $(this.el), but what about accessing elements that are handled by backbone’s event binding?

How can I target the clicked div with id #button directly from my event handler, as shown below? Do i really need to create a subview for this?

Backbone.View.extend({

    el : "#container",

    events: {
        'click #button' : 'buttonHandler'
    },

    buttonHandler: function(e) {
        // $(this.el)... works as supposed but what about $(my button)?
    }

}

Answer 1

buttonHandler: function(e) {
    var element = $(e.target);
}