From cdce2ec30f93e85c2c48cfa0bd93b85ee8769254 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Ashkenas <jashkenas@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:17:02 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] DRY-ing up setElement() a bit.

---
 backbone.js | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backbone.js b/backbone.js
index e846647a..cc520aae 100644
--- a/backbone.js
+++ b/backbone.js
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@
       }
 
       options = options ? _.clone(options) : {};
-      if (!this.set(attrs, options)) return false;
+      if (attrs && !this.set(attrs, options)) return false;
       var model = this;
       var success = options.success;
       options.success = function(resp, status, xhr) {
@@ -980,9 +980,8 @@
     },
 
     setElement : function(element, delegate) {
-      if (_.isString(element)) element = $(element)[0];
-      this.el = element;
       this.$el = $(element);
+      this.el = this.$el[0];
       if (delegate !== false) this.delegateEvents();
     },