Capturing events

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11878402/using-jsdoc-event-tag-within-backbone-js-code

by fguillen

HTML

<script src="http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/underscore.js"></script>
<script src="http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/backbone.js"></script>
<a id="my_element" href="#click">click me</a>

JavaScript

var DocumentView = Backbone.View.extend({
  events: {
    "click" : "open"
  },

  open: function( event ) {
    console.log( "this", this );
    console.log( "event", event );
  }
});

new DocumentView({ el: "#my_element" });