doing this.appendView(this.$el, view)

[augustblack]

I've run into a number of situations where I would like to appendView to the this.$el instead of some DOM element within this.$el.

Is there no current way to do this?vvIf not, I think it would be a great addition.

This would allow you to create a container view with {tagName: "body" // or tbody, ul } and then just do:

this.appendView( myDivView // or myTrView, myLiView,etc );