Question

I need to access some information about the element that was bound to a Backbone View’s events (i.e. the href="something"). How do I access this object?

var SomeView = Backbone.View.extend({

    events: {
        "click a.some-class": "doStuff"
    }

    doStuff: function(e) {
        e.preventDefault(); // prevent default behavior
        // How can I access the element (i.e. a <a>) here?
    }

});

Answer 1

$(e.target) will work.

doStuff: function(e) {
   e.preventDefault();

   $(e.target).css('color', 'red');

 }

See http://jsfiddle.net/aD3Mn/2/