Question

Is it possible to bind events on body element inside a view?

For example this doesn’t work

Backbone.View.extend({
  el : "#some element here",
  events : {
    "mouseup body" : "onMouseUp"
  }
});

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I think is not possible.

Backbone.View.events uses internally this.$el.delegate which internally uses CSS selector which looks like doesn’t support upwards selection.

You can instead add a position: absolute div into your el DOM element and make it transparent and fullscreen it. And then capture events from there.