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Today I found myself struggling with Backbone.js events. In this particular case I wanted a span element with the class use to point to a router url. That shouldn’t be that hard to do, but I couldn’t get it to work.

After a while I realized that I overwrote the el property with the template I used instead of adding it to the el property.

render : function() {
	this.el = this.template( this.model.toJSON() );
	return this;
},

When I added the the template to the el property instead of making it the element, all of the sudden it worked.

render : function() {
	$( this.el ).html( this.template( this.model.toJSON() ) );
	return this;
},

Lesson learned: do not overwrite the el property in your render method!