How to order events bound with jQuery

Question

Lets say I have a web app which has a page that may contain 4 script blocks - the script I write may be found in one of those blocks, but I do not know which one, that is ha

Answer 1

Here's my shot at this, covering different versions of jQuery:

// Binds a jQuery event to elements at the start of the event chain for that type.
jQuery.extend({
    _bindEventHandlerAtStart: function ($elements, eventType, handler) {
        var _data;

        $elements.bind(eventType, handler);
        // This bound the event, naturally, at the end of the event chain. We
        // need it at the start.

        if (typeof jQuery._data === 'function') {
            // Since jQuery 1.8.1, it seems, that the events object isn't
            // available through the public API `.data` method.
            // Using `$._data, where it exists, seems to work.
            _data = true;
        }

        $elements.each(function (index, element) {
            var events;

            if (_data) {
                events = jQuery._data(element, 'events')[eventType];
            } else {
                events = jQuery(element).data('events')[eventType];
            }

            events.unshift(events.pop());

            if (_data) {
                jQuery._data(element, 'events')[eventType] = events;
            } else {
                jQuery(element).data('events')[eventType] = events;
            }
        });
    }
});