I’d like to register view events on the view parent element. I tried the parent selector:
var MyView = Backbone.View.extend({ events: { 'mousemove :parent': 'mousemove' }, // ... });
But it is not working. How can I achieve this?
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Answer
Backbone uses jQuery event delegate, so you can’t delegate events to the parent node.
see in Backbone source code line 954, the View.delegateEvents function.