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November 29th, 2003, 10:34 PM

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Get the object with input focus

I need to get the name of the object on the page that currently has input focus (this needs to happen in the onblur event of one object, so I can see what the focus has been transferred to).

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December 1st, 2003, 05:29 AM

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In IE this is the activeElement.

Code:

var oElement = document.activeElement;
alert(oElement.name);

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