Meteor: how to access parent properties within nested templates?

Question

I am getting started with Meteor, and adapting the todo example to include nested tag groups. I have the following HTML, which outputs each name of each tag group, plus the

Answer 1

I found the solution to access parent data:

Template.nestedTemplate.events({
    'click a.class':function(event,template){
        var parentID = template.data._id;
        console.log(parentID);
    }
});

The .events handler function receives two arguments: event, an object with information about the event, and template, a template instance for the template where the handler is defined. Took me a really long time to figure this one out. Don't use the handlebars solution, it shows your data!