Backbone.js marionette ItemView click event not working - backbone.js

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I have been able to get events to fire in my marionette controllers like so:
...snip...
var Controller = {};
_.extend(Controller, Backbone.Events);
// private
var Layout = Marionette.Layout.extend({
template: _.template(layout),
regions: {
inspectorStart: "#inspector_start",
loginStart: "#login_start",
playerStart: "#player_start"
}
});
// private
var _initializeLayout = function() {
console.log('initialize Start Layout...');
Controller.layout = new Layout();
Controller.layout.on('show', function() { **// This works**
Controller.trigger('startLayout:rendered'); **// This works**
});
vent.trigger('app:show', Controller.layout); **// This works**
};
// Listen for events ///////////////////////////////////////////
// controller attach a sub view
Controller.on("startLayout:rendered", function() { **// This works**
console.log('startLayout:rendered =>StartController'); **// This works**
// render views for the existing HTML in the template,...
var inspectorStartView = new InspectorStartView();
// and attach it to the layout (i.e. don't double render)
Controller.layout.inspectorStart.attachView(inspectorStartView);
Controller.trigger('inspectorStart:show', inspectorStartView); **// This works**
...snip...
However, when I try to use the extended marionette ItemView I can't get events or triggers to work.
// views/InspectorStartView.js
// -------
define(["jquery", "marionette", "text!templates/InspectorStart.html"],
function($, marionette, template){
var InspectorStartView = marionette.ItemView.extend({
template: template,
events: {
'click .starting_thumbnail' : 'start'
//'click #inspectorStart' : 'start' **// didn't work either**
},
//I had also tried triggers
triggers: {
//'click .starting_thumbnail' : 'inspectorStart:start'
'click #inspectorStart' : 'inspectorStart:start' **// didn't work either**
},
start:function (){ **// Doesn't get called**
console("Caught InspectorStartView click")
this.trigger("inspectorStart:start")
}
});
// Returns the View class
return InspectorStartView;
});
Here is the template:
<!-- InspectorStart.html -->
<div id="inspectorStart" class="thumbnail starting_thumbnail">
<img src="/img/detective-97715888.jpg" alt="Inspector" width="200px" height="300px">
<div class="caption">
<h3>Inspectors Enter Here</h3>
<p>Den Masters, Teachers, Parents, House Mothers, this is where you start.</p>
</div>
</div>
I did have to create the starting_thumbnail class so that I would get a pointer:
.starting_thumbnail{
cursor: pointer;
}
Do I need to do something else to make a div clickable?
On my first attempt I passed in App.vent and tried to use it to no avail now I'm extending the Controller {} with _.extend(Controller, Backbone.Events);
Following some debugging advice from #Ingro I logged what this.$el id for the ItemView. This:
console.log(["InspectorStartView initalise ",this.$el])
Here is the output. There is nodeName: "DIV" and the localName is div.
["InspectorStartView initalise ", jQuery.fn.jQuery.init[1]]
0: "InspectorStartView initalise "
1: jQuery.fn.jQuery.init[1]
0: div
accessKey: ""
align: ""
attributes: NamedNodeMap
baseURI: "http://localhost:8001/index.html"
childElementCount: 1
childNodes: NodeList[3]
children: HTMLCollection[1]
classList: DOMTokenList
className: ""
clientHeight: 496
clientLeft: 0
clientTop: 0
clientWidth: 300
contentEditable: "inherit"
dataset: DOMStringMap
dir: ""
draggable: false
firstChild: #comment
firstElementChild: div#inspectorStart.thumbnail starting_thumbnail
hidden: false
id: ""
innerHTML: "<!-- InspectorStart.html -->↵<div id="inspectorStart" class="thumbnail starting_thumbnail">↵ <img src="/img/detective-97715888.jpg" alt="Inspector" width="200px" height="300px">↵ <div class="caption">↵ <h3>Inspectors Enter Here</h3>↵ <p>Den Masters, Teachers, Parents, House Mothers, this is where you start.</p>↵ </div>↵</div>"
innerText: "↵Inspectors Enter Here↵Den Masters, Teachers, Parents, House Mothers, this is where you start.↵↵"
isContentEditable: false
lang: ""
lastChild: div#inspectorStart.thumbnail starting_thumbnail
lastElementChild: div#inspectorStart.thumbnail starting_thumbnail
localName: "div"
namespaceURI: "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
nextElementSibling: null
nextSibling: null
nodeName: "DIV"
nodeType: 1
nodeValue: null
offsetHeight: 496
offsetLeft: 621
offsetParent: body
offsetTop: 388
offsetWidth: 300
<!-- all the on<eventname> were null -->
outerHTML: "<div><!-- InspectorStart.html -->↵<div id="inspectorStart" class="thumbnail starting_thumbnail">...snip..."
ownerDocument: #document
parentElement: li#inspector_start.span4
parentNode: li#inspector_start.span4
prefix: null
previousElementSibling: null
previousSibling: null
scrollHeight: 496
scrollLeft: 0
scrollTop: 0
scrollWidth: 300
spellcheck: true
style: CSSStyleDeclaration
tabIndex: -1
tagName: "DIV"
Of course above is inside the initialize method. I wanted to see the difference after creating a 'new' one:
/ controller show inspector in the layout / subview
Controller.on('inspectorStart:show', function(inspectorStartView) {
console.log('show inspector start view');
console.log(**'InspectorVartView instance this.$el : ', inspectorStartView.el**);
Controller.layout.inspectorStart.show(inspectorStartView);
});
The output is much smaller:
InspectorVartView instance this.$el :
<div>​
<!-- InspectorStart.html -->
<div id=​"inspectorStart" class=​"thumbnail starting_thumbnail">​…​</div>​
</div>​
#Ingro that is wrapped in a div why would that matter?
Does anyone see what I'm doing incorrectly?
Thanks,
Andrew jsFiddle(see comments below)

Answer 1

Turns out I had corrupted jquery somehow. I used jsfiddle to prove my code was correct. then I started looking at version number requirements and replaced jquery and it started working.
Thanks to #Ingro for your input.
Andrew