backbone.js click event not firing

Question

Going through a very basic tutorial on backbone.js views.

The expected behavior is to call the render function when #sayhello button is clicked. Render simply uses

Answer 1

It's because #sayhello is not part of your view. Try putting #sayhello inside #helloworld:

<div id="helloworld">
    <button id="sayhello">Say Hello</button>
</div>

Answer 2

If you are dynamically rendering the page using the templates, then in the render function consider calling view.setElement(...);

this.setElement($('#login-container'));