BackboneJS - Model Defaults

Description

It sets a default value to a model, that means if user doesn't specify any data, the model won't fall with empty property.

Syntax

model.defaults

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title> Model Example</title>
      <script src = "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.3.min.js"
         type = "text/javascript"></script>
      
      <script src = "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.8.2/underscore-min.js"
         type = "text/javascript"></script>
      
      <script src = "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/backbone.js/1.1.2/backbone-min.js"
         type = "text/javascript"></script>
      
      <script type = "text/javascript">
         var  Person = Backbone.Model.extend({
            defaults : {
               "title": "Hello",
               "description": "Welcome to TutorialsPoint"
            }
         });
         var person = new Person();
         document.write(person.get('description'));
      </script>
         
   </head>
   <body></body>
</html>

Output

Let us carry out the following steps to see how the above code works −

Save the above code in defaults.htm file.
Open this HTML file in a browser.

backbonejs_model.htm