Views in the Backbone.js library. Backbone views are used to reflect what your applications' data models look like. They are also used to listen to events and react accordingly.
Questions tagged [backbone-views]
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Error while creating a backbone.js view - Expecting a function in instanceof check, but got [object Object]
I am trying to create a simple backbone.js view with the following code:
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Backbone partial view not rendering the latest model
I am relatively new to Backbone and I am running into this problem.
I am using Backbone with DustJS
My template looks something like this - index.dust
{>"app/inc/responseMessage" /}
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Backbone.js _ensureElement error
I'm getting this error, when I want to initialize the view from router class.
Error is:
Uncaught TypeError: Object # has no method '_ensureElement'
BlogFormView:
App.BlogFormView = Backbone.View.extend({
el: ".data-form",
initialize:…
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Backbone Custom Events
Let's say I have two views (paginationview and postsview) and a collection (postscollection). Whenever the .next button is clicked in the paginationview I am calling the next function in the postscollection and the post collection is fetching the…
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Backbone table view consuming row view - how to structure?
I have a collection of models that I wish to render in a table view. Each model should be represented by a single row in the table, and this row should be generated using a template. I should be able to attach event handlers to that row (say click),…
oli
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How can I dynamically set a className for a Backbone.js view based on it's model attributes?
Basically what I need is to do something like this
App.CommentView = Backbone.View.extend({
className: function() {
if (this.model.get('parent_id')) {
return 'comment comment-reply';
} else {
return 'comment';
}
},
The…
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Backbone model state when tied to a form
I'm building a form with Backbone and looking to have it validate its fields on the "blur" event.
Hooking into the event is easy enough, but what I'm curious about is whether or not the model should be updated on blur or only when the form is…
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Marionette bubble event from itemview to parent layoutview?
I have a layout view with a region, in that region I have a item view that triggers an event but it doesn't seem to be bubbled up to the layout view. Am I doing something wrong or is this designed behavior? I assume the itemview prefix is not…
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Backbone Marionette, Composite View initializes twice
I'm using a composite view that has $.dialog called on it's $el.
The composite view is then listing items from a collection.
Now i've tried multiple ways to render the collection items: fetching from outside the composite view before and after…
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In Backbone this.model is undefined, why?
I've looked everywhere for an answer but wasn't satisfied with what I've found.
The issue is, I'm doing a tutorial from Addy Osmani to make a 'Todo' app in Backbone, but when I look at the console, I get an error saying that this.model is…
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wordpress 3.5 media manager - add my own backbone.js views
I am currently trying to utilize the new WordPress 3.5 media manager which uses backbone.js to create and populate its modal window.
What I want to do is: a user clicks upload button, media manager pops up, user selects image, presses insert, image…
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Is using the same id multiple times on a page bad practice even when I am not parsing through the page?
I understand that using the same id multiple times in a page creates malformed html. When using a jquery selector only the first element with the id will be returned, but in my application I shouldn't be running into this issue.
I have list of items…
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How to create a base view in backbone.js?
I need to create a base view which all my views would extends.
I'm not really sure where and when to declare this view.
Basically, I need to inject global variables to all my templates and I don't do to that in each and every render() methods.
this…
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How do I call a backbone view event only once?
I have a backbone view that looks like this:
var myView = Backbone.view.extend({
events: {'click .myClass': 'myFunction'},
initialze: //initialize function,
render: //render function,
myFunction: function (e) {
//do…
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Setting dynamic css-style properties of a Backbone.View
I'm trying to set the height, width and background image of a
- element.
Here's what I've got for my Backbone.View:
var RackView = Backbone.View.extend({
tagName: 'ul',
className: 'rack unselectable',
template:…
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