Availability of UI elements in Marionette.View

Question

I\'d just like to understand the decisions behind Backbone.Marionette\'s view regarding UI elements. When instantiating a Marionette.View on an existing DOM element, like this:<

Answer 1

When I am working with Marionette, I put the code that has to access the ui elements inside the onShow method. This event is fired after the dom is ready and the elements are ready to be manipulated. Inside this method, your ui.whatever will now be pointing to an element and not a string.