Question

Can you group jQuery’s events like with switch();?

Something like:

$(element).bind({
    blur:
    keyup: function(){ /* both do the same stuff */ }
    /* Update below */
    click: function(){ /* specific stuff */ },
    mouseenter: function() { /* more specific stuff */ }
});

Answer 1

You can use the bind method to group jQuery events:

$("myItem").bind("click blur keyup", myFunction);

UPDATE

Having read a little more into the bind method since your update, it seems that since jQuery 1.4 we can do exactly what you’re asking for:

$('#foo').bind({
  click: function() {
    // do something on click
  },
  mouseenter: function() {
    // do something on mouseenter
  }
});

Taken from: http://api.jquery.com/bind/#multiple-events

I notice now that it’s not exactly as you’re asking. What you can do is assign the same function to different events but as far as I can tell, there no way to do a direct chaining of events using this method. I tried bind({click, blur: function(){}}) for example and a few other ways but none of them seem to work.