Backbone.JS Custom Event from Child View

Question

I have two views, for simplicity sake a parent/child. The child is using trigger to throw an event. I am not seeing it in the handler of the parent. Is the below valid?

var parent = Backbone.View.extend({
    events: { "childevent": "run" },
    run: function(e) {
       console.log(e);
    }, 
    render: function() { /* render the child here */ }
});

var child = Backbone.View.extend({
    someAction: function() { this.trigger('childevent'); }
});

Answer 1

Figured it out! $(this.el).trigger('childevent'); works.