backbone.js removing template from DOM upon success
- by timpone
I'm writing a simple message board app to learn backbone. It's going ok (a lot of the use of this isn't making sense) but am a little stuck in terms of how I would remove a form / html from the dom. I have included most of the code but you can see about 4 lines up from the bottom, the part that isn't working. How would I remove this from the DOM?
thx in advance
var MbForm=Backbone.View.extend({
events: {
'click button.add-new-post': 'savePost'
},
el: $('#detail'),
template:_.template($('#post-add-edit-tmpl').html()),
render: function(){
var compiled_template = this.template();
this.$el.html(compiled_template);
return this;
},
savePost: function(e){
//var self=this;
//console.log("I want you to say Hello!");
data={
header: $('#post_header').val(),
detail: $('#post_detail').val(),
forum_id: $('#forum_id').val(),
post_id: $('#post_id').val(),
parent_id: $('#parent_id').val()
};
this.model.save(data, {
success: function(){
alert('this saved');
//$(this.el).html('this is what i want');
this.$el.remove();// <- this is the part that isn't working
/* none of these worked - error Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'unbind' of undefined
this.$el.unbind();
this.$el.empty();
this.el.unbind();
this.el.empty();
*/
//this.unbind();
//self.append('this is appended');
}
});
