diff --git a/src/event.js b/src/event.js
index 27284af32..1bcdc429e 100644
--- a/src/event.js
+++ b/src/event.js
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ jQuery.event = {
 
 		// Handle multiple events separated by a space
 		// jQuery(...).bind("mouseover mouseout", fn);
-		types = hoverHack(types).split( " " );
+		types = jQuery.trim( hoverHack(types) ).split( " " );
 		for ( t = 0; t < types.length; t++ ) {
 
 			tns = rtypenamespace.exec( types[t] ) || [];
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ jQuery.event = {
 		}
 
 		// Once for each type.namespace in types; type may be omitted
-		types = hoverHack( types || "" ).split(" ");
+		types = jQuery.trim( hoverHack( types || "" ) ).split(" ");
 		for ( t = 0; t < types.length; t++ ) {
 			tns = rtypenamespace.exec( types[t] ) || [];
 			type = tns[1];
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ jQuery.event = {
 				for ( j in events ) {
 					jQuery.event.remove( elem, j + namespaces, handler, selector );
 				}
-				return;
+				continue;
 			}
 
 			special = jQuery.event.special[ type ] || {};
diff --git a/test/unit/event.js b/test/unit/event.js
index 2c9948290..17caed56b 100644
--- a/test/unit/event.js
+++ b/test/unit/event.js
@@ -2458,6 +2458,30 @@ test(".on and .off", function() {
 	jQuery("#onandoff").remove();
 });
 
+
+test(".on and .off, selective mixed removal (#10705)", function() {
+	expect(7);
+
+	var clockout = 0,
+		timingx = function( e ) { 
+			ok( true, "triggered " + e.type );
+		};
+	
+	jQuery( '<p>Strange Pursuit</p>' )
+		.on( "click", timingx )
+		.on( "click.duty", timingx )
+		.on( "click.now", timingx )
+		.on( "devo", timingx )
+		.on( "future", timingx )
+		.trigger( "click" )		// 3
+		.trigger( "devo" )		// 1
+		.off( ".duty devo " )	// trailing space
+		.trigger( "future" )	// 1
+		.trigger( "click" )		// 2
+		.off( "future click" )
+		.trigger( "click" );	// 0
+});
+
 test("delegated events quickIs", function() {
 	expect(14);
 	var markup = jQuery(