documentcloud/backbone — Issue #989: Binding events directly to the top level Backbone.View element
Author: kenn
Created: 2012-02-11 03:01:30+00:00
State: open

Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't find a way to do that.

```
class window.SomeView extends Backbone.View
events:
'click .child' : 'activate'
```

Here you can bind a click event to `.child`, but can't do the same to the `el` itself. To make the entire element clickable, I need to add an empty div (with no margin/padding) just to conform backbone.

In other words, instead of this:

```

...

...

```

I just like to have this:

```
...

...

```

Is it possible? How do I do this?