title: Trying to understand how to fit Backbone into this menu
body: <p>I'm just learning Backbone-- it seems awesome but I'm still learning how exactly to wield it. I'm trying to figure out how it fits into this situation where I've been asked to use it, and I was hoping for some leads.</p>
  
  <p>Basically we have a menu that's already totally made HTML/CSS wise, it's done. This menu lets a user select what color of product they're looking for (for example), then what <em>fabric</em>, and so on. The functionality they would like to add to this menu is that as soon as the first choice is made, the color, the second set of options should grey out accordingly: for instance, if you pick red and only 2 of the 5 fabrics are available in red, the other 3 should grey out.</p>
  
  <p>They want this done with Backbone, and it's my first time putting this library to use.</p>
  
  <p>So as soon as a color is picked, I guess I need to make an AJAX request and immediately find out what's good for fabrics and update accordingly, but I'm hitting a little wall because if the HTML is already done...then...there's no "view", not that I made anyway...so...help me out here. Am I thinking about it wrong? Can this be done anyway?</p>