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Asked: 2026-06-06T03:12:40+00:00

So I am making a test app using RequireJs, Mustache and Backbone.js. I had

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So I am making a test app using RequireJs, Mustache and Backbone.js. I had some success with rendering the collection of models with the Mustache template. But my Mustache template has a button and when I try to bind click event on the button in the view, the button click doesn’t invoke the callback function. I am really stuck, can someone tell me where I am not doing right?

Here is my code:

ItemView.js:

define(['jquery', 'backbone', 'underscore', 'mustache', '../../atm/model/item'], function ($, Backbone, _, Mustache, Item) {

var ItemView = Backbone.View.extend({        
    initialize: function() {
    },

    tagName: 'li',

    events: {
        'click .button': 'showPriceChange'
    },

    render: function() {
        var template = $('#template-atm').html();
        var itemObj = this.model.toJSON();
        itemObj['cid'] = this.model.cid;

        var rendering = Mustache.to_html(template, itemObj);
        this.el = rendering;

        return this;
    },

    showPriceChange: function(event) {
        alert('Changing...');
        $('#' + elemId).empty();
        $('#' + elemId).append(document.createTextNode('Changed'));
    },       
});

return ItemView;
});

atm.html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Elevator</title>
    <script data-main="scripts/main" src="scripts/require-jquery.js"></script>
    <style type="text/css">

    </style>
</head>

<body>
    <h1>Vending Machine</h1>
    <div id="atm-items">
    </div>

    <script id="template-atm" type="html/template">
        <li>
            <p>Item: {{name}}</p>
            <label for="price-{{cid}}">Price:</label>
            <input id="price-{{cid}}" type="text" value="{{price}}"/>
            <button class="button">Change</button>
            <p id="status-{{name}}-{{cid}}">- -</p>
        </li>
    </script>
</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    You’re replacing the view’s el inside render:

    render: function() {
    //...
    this.el = rendering;
    //...
}

    When you do that, you’re losing the jQuery delegate that is attached to this.el, that delegate handler (which Backbone adds) is responsible for the event routing.

    Usually, you add things to this.el rather than replacing this.el. If your template looked like this:

    <script id="template-atm" type="html/template">
     <p>Item: {{name}}</p>
     <label for="price-{{cid}}">Price:</label>
     <input id="price-{{cid}}" type="text" value="{{price}}"/>
     <button class="button">Change</button>
     <p id="status-{{name}}-{{cid}}">- -</p>
 </script>

    then you would this.$el.append(rendering) in your view’s render; this would give you an <li> in this.el since you’ve set your view’s tagName to li.

    Alternatively, if you really need to keep the <li> in the template, you could use setElement to replace this.el, this.$el, and take care of the event delegation:

    this.setElement(rendering);

    Presumably you’re wrapping all these <li>s in a <ul>, <ol>, or <menu> somewhere else; if you’re not then you’re producing invalid HTML and the browser might try to correct it for you, the corrections might cause you trouble elsewhere as your HTML structure might not be what your selectors think it is.

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