Re: Lose Focus When Hidden? (SVG ISSUE-2031)

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Doug Schepers wrote:
> 
> Note that there doesn't seem to be a way in HTML to detect which 
> element, if any, is the currently focused element.  You can do this in 
> SVG, via the getCurrentFocusedObject() method which returns an event 
> target, and we suggest that HTML5 do something similar.

HTML5 adopts IE's activeElement attribute to do this:

   http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dom-document-activeelement

HTH,
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Received on Sunday, 22 February 2009 03:59:27 UTC