I am learning backbone.js and I have seen some examples like this one.Here the user has not written much html codes inside the editor.html.Only 4 lines of code.But for colour change,size change etc he has done inside editor.js
Please help me understand what all codes we need to keep inside .html file
<div id="page" style="width:2000px;height:2000px;">
<button id="new-rectangle">New Rectangle</button>
<button id="new-circle">New Circle</button>
</div>
You should aim to put all your html in .html file(s). As an app grows, it will help you to keep them separate. The example you link to is a 'simplified' version - this is not how you would structure things in an actual app. You would load html from templates in the render function. A (though this is also simplified as I am relying on script tags) pattern would be:
HTML file:
[...SOME HTML...]
<script type="text/html" id="template-contact">
<div class='contact'>
<h1>Here's my template code</h1>
<strong>name</strong>
<span>email</span>
</div>
</script>
Then in your Backbone view render function:
render: function() {
template: _template($('#template-contract').html(),
this.$el.html(this.template());
return this;
}
Then somewhere else in your Backbone code you create a new instance of the view and render it.
var example = new view_name();
example.render(); //This loads the html template
If you need to dynamically load the html from a server, you can use underscore (or whichever template engine you are using) tags in your template '<%>' and use models. This is best explained in Addy Osmani's book Developing Backbone.js Applications which, incredibly, is free. Here's the link to the relevant section
Whatever you wants to display on the browser you can keep it in .html file and logic to update the dom on run time should be in .js file.
