I'm afraid you're getting tripped up by the Backbone.js library, not the language itself... `this.options` is the options object that was passed when the View

I'm afraid you're getting tripped up by the Backbone.js library, not the language itself... `this.options` is the options object that was passed when the View was created, and `this.el` is the default DOM element that wraps the View. For more info, see: http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#View-constructor http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#View-constructor http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#View-el http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#View-el