javascript - Backbone.js DOM isn't ready in render method to apply jquery magic

Question

I'm trying to build a todo list with multiple lists. Everything works perfectly fine. The issue comes when I want to use JQuery UI Sortable. I'm adding the snippet in my TaskListView in the render function, but I had to wrap it into a setTimeout function so that it waits until the DOM is loaded.

I'm pretty sure there is a better way to do this, but I just couldn't find it yet. Help is appreciated.

var TaskView = Backbone.View.extend({
    initialize: function(task) {
        this.task = task;
    },
    render: function() {
        var completedClass = "completedTask";
        if (this.task.completed == 100) completedClass = "pendingTask";
        var html = ""
        + "<li class='task-<%= task.get('id') %> ' data-id='<%= task.get('id') %>' sortable='true'>"
        + "<div class='float-left'><i class='icon-trash removeTask' data-id='<%= task.get('id') %>'></i></div>"
        + "<div class='float-left'>"
        + "<span class='editTask ' data-type='title' data-id='<%= task.get('id') %>'><%= task.get('title') %></span> "
        + "</div>"
        + "<div class='float-right'>"
        + "<span class='editTask task-responsible label' data-type='responsible' data-id='<%= task.get('id') %>'><%= task.get('responsible') %></span>"
        + "<span class='editTask task-deadline label' data-type='ended' data-id='<%= task.get('id') %>'><%= task.get('ended') %></span>"
        + "<span class='label criticallyLevelToggle editTask <%= criticallyLevelClass %>' data-type='completed' data-id='<%= task.get('id') %>'><%= parseInt(task.get('completed')) %>%</span>"
        + "</div>"
        + "<div class='clear'>&nbsp;</div>"
        +"</li>";

        var template = _.template( html, {task: this.task, criticallyLevelClass:this.task.getCriticallyLevelClass(), completed: completedClass});
        this.$el.html(template);
        return this;
    }
});

var TaskListView = Backbone.View.extend({
    initialize: function(tasks) {
        this.tasks = tasks;
    },
    render: function() {
        var html = ""
        +"<ul class='tasks'>"
        +"<%= tasksli %>"
        +"<li><div class='float-left'><input type='text' placeholder='New task...' class='new-task' name='new-task'/></div><div class='clear'>&nbsp;</div></li>"
        +"</ul>";
        + "";
        var tasksRendered = "";
        if (_.isArray(this.tasks)) {
            for (var i = 0; i < this.tasks.length; i++) {
                var tView = new TaskView(new Task(this.tasks[i]));
                tasksRendered += tView.render().el.innerHTML;
            };
        }
        var template = _.template(html, { tasksli: tasksRendered});
        this.$el.html(template);

        setTimeout(function(){this.$('.tasks').sortable({
            stop: function(e, ui) {
                ui.item.trigger('drop', ui.item.index());
            }
        });}, 500);

        return this;
    }
});