Turning off div wrap for Backbone.Marionette.ItemView

Question

I\'m looking at the Angry Cats Backbone/Marionette tutorial posts here

http://davidsulc.com/blog/2012/04/15/a-simple-backbone-marionette-tutorial/

http://dav

Answer 1

While I'm sure there's a way to hack the internals of render to get it to behave the way you'd like, taking this approach means you'll be fighting the conventions of Backbone and Marionette through the whole development process. ItemView needs to have an associated $el, and by convention, it's a div unless you specify a tagName.

I empathize -- especially in the case of Layouts and Regions, it appears to be impossible to stop Backbone from generating an extra element. I'd recommend accepting the convention while you learn the rest of the framework and only then deciding if it's worth hacking render to behave differently (or to just choose a different framework).