// Use absolute URLs to navigate to anything not in your Router.
// Only need this for pushState enabled browsers
if (Backbone.history && Backbone.history._hasPushState) {
// Use delegation to avoid initial DOM selection and allow all matching elements to bubble
$(document).delegate("a", "click", function(evt) {
// Get the anchor href and protcol
var href = $(this).attr("href");
var protocol = this.protocol + "//";
// Ensure the protocol is not part of URL, meaning its relative.
// Stop the event bubbling to ensure the link will not cause a page refresh.
if (href.slice(protocol.length) !== protocol) {
evt.preventDefault();
// Note by using Backbone.history.navigate, router events will not be
// triggered. If this is a problem, change this to navigate on your
// router.
Backbone.history.navigate(href, true);
}
});
}
Thank you!
Awesomeness! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Tim!
I'm using mod_rewrite to get "normal" URLs, so I also check href if it begins with #
Look out for javascript: links, too.
Nice tip. Thanks!
Thank you, really cool.
thanks
This doesn't seem to work anymore.
Backbone.history._hasPushStateis undefined now.Cool. Doesn't work with anchors though. I just shoved in a
before the protocol check to get it all working.
Thank you very much!!!
Thanks. This is a massive help.
Thanks a lot for this! Works great except if you are holding the cmd button to open links in a new tab
Fixed it here: https://gist.github.com/michaelkoper/9402728
This gist seems to be close to #1 on Google when you search for backbone router links so here is the Coffeescript version https://gist.github.com/gabceb/9629965