Fixed bubbling of live events (if an inner element handles an event first - and stops progatation - then the parent event doesn't encounter the event). Thanks to Irae for the patch. Fixes bug #3980.

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/core.js b/src/core.js
index 3a9eaa7de..ac8ec6bc4 100644
--- a/src/core.js
+++ b/src/core.js
@@ -346,14 +346,18 @@ jQuery.fn = jQuery.prototype = {
 	},
 
 	closest: function( selector ) {
-		var pos = jQuery.expr.match.POS.test( selector ) ? jQuery(selector) : null;
+		var pos = jQuery.expr.match.POS.test( selector ) ? jQuery(selector) : null,
+			closer = 0;
 
 		return this.map(function(){
 			var cur = this;
 			while ( cur && cur.ownerDocument ) {
-				if ( pos ? pos.index(cur) > -1 : jQuery(cur).is(selector) )
+				if ( pos ? pos.index(cur) > -1 : jQuery(cur).is(selector) ) {
+					jQuery.data(cur, "closest", closer);
 					return cur;
+				}
 				cur = cur.parentNode;
+				closer++;
 			}
 		});
 	},
diff --git a/src/event.js b/src/event.js
index a621eb93e..e707015c1 100644
--- a/src/event.js
+++ b/src/event.js
@@ -571,9 +571,13 @@ function liveHandler( event ){
 		}
 	});
 
+	elems.sort(function(a,b) {
+		return jQuery.data(a.elem, "closest") - jQuery.data(b.elem, "closest");
+	});
+	
 	jQuery.each(elems, function(){
 		if ( this.fn.call(this.elem, event, this.fn.data) === false )
-			stop = false;
+			return (stop = false);
 	});
 
 	return stop;