Calling a jQuery plugin in a Backbone render method

Question

I have a render method in Backbone that goes basically like this:

render: function () {
  $.tmpl(this.template, attrs).appendTo(this.el);
  return this;
},
         


        

Answer 1

I was able to get this to work for my jQuery plugin only by specifying the context for jQuery in the render function:

    render: function () {
    $(this.el).html(this.template(this.model.toJSON()));
    $('#email1dropdown', this.el).dropdownify();

    return this;
},