backbone.js - events, knowing what was clicked

Question

In one of my backbone.js view classes, I have something like:

...  events: {   'click ul#perpage span' : 'perpage' },  perpage: function() {   // Access the text of the span that was clicked here   // Something like: alert($(element).text()) },  ... 

because my per page markup might have something like:

<ul id="perpage">   <li><span>5</span></li>   <li><span>10</span></li> </ul> 

So how exactly can I find information about the element that caused the event? Or in this instance, that was clicked?

Answer 1

Normally on an event bind, you would just use $(this), but I'm fairly sure Backbone views are set up so that this always refer to the view, so try this:

perpage: function(ev) {    alert($(ev.target).text()); } 

REALLY LATE EDIT: You probably want to use $(ev.currentTarget). See dicussion on pawlik's answer below