How to find out the currently focused DOM element with JavaScript

Arne Hartherz

December 03, 2012Software engineer at makandra GmbH

This works in all relevant browsers:

document.activeElement

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You can use this in your Selenium steps, for example, to assert that a form field is or is not focused.

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Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2012-12-03 13:38)