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HTML

<script src="http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/underscore-min.js"></script>
<script src="http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/backbone-min.js"></script>
<body>

		<div class="container-fluid">
			<div class="row-fluid">
				<div class="offset5 span2" id="login-container">
					<h2>Admin Panel</h2>
					<br>
					<div class="control-group">
						<label class="control-label" for="username">Username</label>
						<div class="controls">
							<div class="input-prepend">
								<span class="add-on"><i class="icon-user"></i></span>
								<input name="username" class="span12" id="username" type="text">
							</div>
						</div>
						<label class="control-label" for="password">Password</label>
						<div class="controls">
							<div class="input-prepend">
								<span class="add-on"><i class="icon-asterisk"></i></span>
								<input name="password" class="span12" id="password" type="password">
							</div>
						</div>
					</div>
					<button id="login-btn" class="btn btn-inverse">Login</button>
					<button id="forgot-password" class="btn">Forgot Password</button>			
				</div>
			</div>
		</div> <!-- /container -->	

	</body>

JavaScript

// Backbone Login Script

// Differs slightly, SAVE is used to authenticate the user as it sends a POST
// It will then return an json object with error either true or false + a message

// Login Model

var Login = Backbone.Model.extend({

	initialize: function() {
		console.log('Login Model Initialized');

		this.bind('error', function(model, error) {

			console.log("An error occurred see below.");
            console.log(error);
   			
  		});
	},

	defaults: {
		username: null,
		password: null
	},

	urlRoot: "/login"

});

// Login View
// Not much

var LoginView = Backbone.View.extend({

	initialize: function () {

        console.log('Login View Intialized');
        this.el = $('#login-container');

    },

    // Setup the events (mainly the login)
    events: {

    	// Login - function
    	"click #login-btn" : "checkLogin"

    },

    // Actually authorization function
    checkLogin: function() {

    	console.log("Authorizing login details with server...");

    }

});

// Get it all up and going

var newLogin = new Login();

var loginView = new LoginView({model: newLogin});