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

I think you have that problem because you have to access to the jQuery element with

this.ui.whatever

Because "this" is already a view instance. See: http://marionettejs.com/docs/v2.4.4/marionette.itemview.html#organizing-ui-elements