Question

is there a way to set a binding over, precedence?

I have a link like so:

<a href="" class="popItUp" data-track"stuff"> </a>

popItUp binds to take the url and open in a popup.

data-track is another binding that is used to send event tracking data.

Problem:
popItUp returns false, and the data-track binding is never fired. Is there a way to always make data-track run first by jQuery as it will always return true?

Thanks

Code

// Mixpanel Click Tracking
$('[data-track]').live('click', function () {
    console.log('track it please');
});

$('.popItUp').popupWindow({height:300,width:600,centerBrowser:1});

popUpWindow is a plugin: http://swip.codylindley.com/popupWindowDemo.html

Answer 1

If popItUp handler is bound first and if it returns false then data-track binding will not be called. You need to bind data-track binding first if at all you want to give it more precedence and not matter what popItUp does.

Looking at your edited question, data-track binding is done using live which works on event bubbling mechanism. If popItUp handler returns false then it is not going to work. May be you can try to prevent default behavior using e.preventDefault(); of anchor instead of returning false inside the popItUp handler.