URL link wont work in backbone

Question

I have a project done in backbone and I have one problem regarding basic links on the page , when I click on the link url has been copied to existing url and it wont lead to defined address , for example

in template I have link : <a href="http://www.google.com" class="google_link">google.com</a>

and in backbone I have this event : ' click .google_link' : 'google_link'

and function :

google_link: function(e) {

                $el = $(e.currentTarget);
                var link = $el.attr('href');
                Backbone.history.navigate(link, {trigger: true});

            },

and when I click on link i get address like this

http:// localhost:8888/backboneApp/#http://google.com

I know this is not right way but can anyone tell me how to handle static links to do normal stuff ?

EDIT without events its doing the same thing , just paste url to adress and nothing happens

Answer 1

I don't think you need to handle the external URLs. It should automatically be take care. Just try removing the events, it should work fine.