joint.dia.ElementView is the view for the joint.dia.Element model or any of its inheritants. It inherits from the Backbone View. joint.dia.ElementView is responsible for rendering an element with properties defined in its model into the paper. Also, this view is the place where the actual transformations take place. Moreover, joint.dia.ElementView takes care of handling pointer events. To get a view associated to a model, use the findViewByModel method of the paper.