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    <p>I am attempting to refactor my backbone views to have all HTML related markup in external templates. Ideally I would like to have the element that the view is attached to in the external template as well. At the moment I have:</p> <p>The html template</p> <pre><code> &lt;h3 class="pull-left"&gt;Search&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;input id="customer-search-input" class="input-large search-query" placeholder="Cust #, Name, Suburb or Owner" /&gt; &lt;button id="customer-search-show-all" class="btn pull-right"&gt;Show All&lt;/button&gt; &lt;span id="update-time" class ="pull-right"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;table id="customer-search-results-table" class="tablesorter tablesorter-dropbox"&gt; &lt;thead&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;Customer Number&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Customer Name&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Suburb&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Owner&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Phone Number&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/thead&gt; &lt;tbody id="customer-list-results"&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre> <p>And the backbone view that consumes the template:</p> <pre><code> define(['jquery','underscore', 'backbone', 'text!templates/customerSearch.html','text!templates/customerRow.html', 'jquery.tablesorter' ], function($, _, Backbone, customerSearchTemplate, customerRow) { // ... Other sub-views var CustomerSearch = Backbone.View.extend({ id:'customer-search', // would prefer to have these className: 'well', // in the template initialize: function(){ this.$el.html(customerSearchTemplate); this.customerSearchInput = this.$("#customer-search-input"); }, events: { "click #customer-search-show-all": "showAll", "keyup #customer-search-input": "search" }, search: function(){ var filteredCustomers = this.collection.search(this.customerSearchInput.val(), ['id','companyName','suburb','businessContact']); this.customerSearchResultsView = new CustomerSearchResultsView({collection: filteredCustomers}); this.customerSearchResultsView.render(); }, showAll: function() { this.customerSearchResultsView = new CustomerSearchResultsView({collection: this.collection}); this.customerSearchResultsView.render(); } }); return CustomerSearch; }); </code></pre> <p>Everything works but it would be great to be able to have the <code>id</code> and <code>className</code> as part of a wrapper div in the template. If I add this to the template then it appears correctly when rendered but is wrapped by another div by the backbone view. </p> <p>I'm trying to decouple everything as much as possible.</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <hr> <p><strong>Update 17 Oct 2012</strong></p> <p>Using the <code>view.setElement</code> method</p> <pre><code> var CustomerSearch = Backbone.View.extend({ template:_.template(customerSearchTemplate), initialize: function(){ this.setElement(this.template()); }, // ... }); </code></pre> <p>with template</p> <pre><code> &lt;div id="customer-search" class="well"&gt; &lt;h3 class="pull-left"&gt;Search&lt;/h3&gt; // ... &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>appears to work. Just wondering now if there is performance hit. Will report back. </p>
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    1. COSomething like this? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11594961/backbone-not-this-el-wrapping
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    2. COThanks @nikoshr. I thought I had read somewhere that one shouldn't use the setElement method unless setting an existing view element to a new one. I guess when using it as you describe the original backbone created `<div>` is overridden by the parent element from the template and this doesn't cause any problems because the original `<div>` was never appended to the DOM. Is that correct?
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