title: Hide div in Backbone.View
body: <p>Why is the jquery selector not working?</p>
  
  <p>View</p>
  
  <pre><code>        Views.Now = Backbone.View.extend({
          template:"mytemplate",
  
  
          initialize:function () {
              var self = this;
              this.$el.find(".content").hide();  // selector is not working
          }
  
      });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Template:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="now"&gt;
  &lt;p class="loader"&gt;Waiting for connection&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;div class="content"&gt;
      &lt;button&gt;hello world&lt;/button&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>