Not all browsers support event capturing (for example, Internet Explorer versions less than 9 don’t) but all do support event bubbling, which is why it is the phase used to bind handlers to events in all cross-browser abstractions, jQuery’s included.
The nearest to what you are looking for in jQuery is using bind()
(superseded by on()
in jQuery 1.7+) or the event-specific jQuery methods (in this case, click()
, which calls bind()
internally anyway). All use the bubbling phase of a raised event.