How to get attributes from the clicked element in backbone event?

backbone-events, backbone-views, backbone.js

Solution

you can use: `var element = $(e.currentTarget);`

then any attributes can be called like this: `element.attr('id')`

so in your code above:

changeRoute: function(e) {
   e.preventDefault();
   var href = $(e.currentTarget).attr("href");
   router.navigate(href, true);
}

Problem

Here is my basic backbone view for changing routes. I would like to get the href attribute of the clicked link. How to do that? Here is a code bellow: ``` var Menu = Backbone.View.extend({ el: '.nav', events: { 'click a' : 'changeRoute' }, changeRoute: function(e) { e.preventDefault(); //var href = $(this).attr("href"); router.navigate(href, true); } }); ``` I am a newbie in backbone, so please have mercy :)

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