My view is set up as below. simple.

var ItemView = Backbone.View.extend({

  tagName : li,



  events : {

    click : display

  },



  display : function() {

    //app.navigate('item'); // take me to my route!

  }

});

And I have my router

var App = Backbone.Router.extend({



  routes: {

     : index,

    item : view_item

  },



  index: function() {

    alert('hi!');

  },



  view_item: function() {

    alert('bye!');

  }

});



app = new App();

Backbone.history.start();

Now, when I click on ItemView, it should run display method and I want the display method to take me to the route I specified in routes item.

Is this possible? I thought navigate function will work, but it doesn't. How could I achieve this?