jQuery.event.handlers delegate matching hook point

src/event.js

@@ -344,11 +344,10 @@ jQuery.event = {
 		// Make a writable jQuery.Event from the native event object
 		event = jQuery.event.fix( event );
 
-		var i, j, cur, ret, selMatch, matched, matches, handleObj, sel,
+		var i, j, ret, matched, handleObj,
 			handlerQueue = [],
 			args = core_slice.call( arguments ),
 			handlers = ( jQuery._data( this, "events" ) || {} )[ event.type ] || [],
-			delegateCount = handlers.delegateCount,
 			special = jQuery.event.special[ event.type ] || {};
 
 		// Use the fix-ed jQuery.Event rather than the (read-only) native event
@@ -361,40 +360,7 @@ jQuery.event = {
 		}
 
 		// Determine handlers that should run if there are delegated events
-		// Avoid non-left-click bubbling in Firefox (#3861)
-		if ( delegateCount && !(event.button && event.type === "click") ) {
-
-			for ( cur = event.target; cur != this; cur = cur.parentNode || this ) {
-
-				// Don't process clicks (ONLY) on disabled elements (#6911, #8165, #11382, #11764)
-				if ( cur.disabled !== true || event.type !== "click" ) {
-					selMatch = {};
-					matches = [];
-					i = 0;
-					for ( ; i < delegateCount; i++ ) {
-						handleObj = handlers[ i ];
-						sel = handleObj.selector;
-
-						if ( selMatch[ sel ] === undefined ) {
-							selMatch[ sel ] = handleObj.needsContext ?
-								jQuery( sel, this ).index( cur ) >= 0 :
-								jQuery.find( sel, this, null, [ cur ] ).length;
-						}
-						if ( selMatch[ sel ] ) {
-							matches.push( handleObj );
-						}
-					}
-					if ( matches.length ) {
-						handlerQueue.push({ elem: cur, handlers: matches });
-					}
-				}
-			}
-		}
-
-		// Add the remaining (directly-bound) handlers
-		if ( handlers.length > delegateCount ) {
-			handlerQueue.push({ elem: this, handlers: handlers.slice( delegateCount ) });
-		}
+		handlerQueue = jQuery.event.handlers.call( this, event, handlers );
 
 		// Run delegates first; they may want to stop propagation beneath us
 		i = 0;
@@ -432,6 +398,49 @@ jQuery.event = {
 		return event.result;
 	},
 
+	handlers: function( event, handlers ) {
+		var i, cur, selMatch, matches, handleObj, sel,
+			handlerQueue = [],
+			delegateCount = handlers.delegateCount;
+
+		// Avoid non-left-click bubbling in Firefox (#3861)
+		if ( delegateCount && !(event.button && event.type === "click") ) {
+
+			for ( cur = event.target; cur != this; cur = cur.parentNode || this ) {
+
+				// Don't process clicks (ONLY) on disabled elements (#6911, #8165, #11382, #11764)
+				if ( cur.disabled !== true || event.type !== "click" ) {
+					selMatch = {};
+					matches = [];
+					i = 0;
+					for ( ; i < delegateCount; i++ ) {
+						handleObj = handlers[ i ];
+						sel = handleObj.selector;
+
+						if ( selMatch[ sel ] === undefined ) {
+							selMatch[ sel ] = handleObj.needsContext ?
+								jQuery( sel, this ).index( cur ) >= 0 :
+								jQuery.find( sel, this, null, [ cur ] ).length;
+						}
+						if ( selMatch[ sel ] ) {
+							matches.push( handleObj );
+						}
+					}
+					if ( matches.length ) {
+						handlerQueue.push({ elem: cur, handlers: matches });
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		// Add the remaining (directly-bound) handlers
+		if ( handlers.length > delegateCount ) {
+			handlerQueue.push({ elem: this, handlers: handlers.slice( delegateCount ) });
+		}
+
+		return handlerQueue;
+	},
+
 	fix: function( event ) {
 		if ( event[ jQuery.expando ] ) {
 			return event;