How to select an element that has focus on it with jQuery

Question

How can you select an element that has current focus?

There is no :focus filter in jQuery, that is why we can use something like this:

$('input:focus').someFunction();

user_450159 · Answer

$(document.activeElement) will return the currently focused element and is faster than using the pseudo selector :focus.

user_250395 · Answer

alert($("*:focus").attr("id"));

I use jQuery.

It will alert id of element is focusing.

I hope it useful for you.

user_52051 · Answer

Really the best way to do it is to setup a handler for the onFocus event, and then set a variable to the ID of the element that has focus.

something like this:

var id;

$(":input").focus(function () {
     id = this.id;
});

user_37881 · Answer

Have you tried

$.extend($.expr[':'], {
    focused: function(elem) { return elem.hasFocus; }
});

alert($('input :focused').length);