Backbone.View “el” confusion
How should a view's el be handled? It has to be set, otherwise events don't fire (see here ). But should it be an element that is already on the page? In my app, I render a (jQuery Templates) template into a Fancybox. What should the el be in that case? LeRoy A views el is where all the event binding takes place. You don't have to use it but if you want backbone to fire events you need to do your rendering work on the el. A views el is a DOM element but it does not have to be a pre-existing element. It will be created if you do not pull one from your current page, but you will have to insert