BackboneJs: In a view whats the difference between el: and tagName:

Question

I\'m trying to wrap my head around this concept.

Can you dumb this down for me and maybe provide a simple example of the difference between the el: attribu

Answer 1

var View = Backbone.View.extend({
  tagName: 'span',
  id: 'identity',
  class: 'classy',
  el: $(this.tagName), // or
  el: $('<' + this.tagName + ' />', {
    id: this.id,       // identity
    'class': this.class  // classy
  })  // this is jQuery shorthand for building an element fyi
});

var view = new View();

I think that should work fine.