What I wanted to do is figure out whenever the user is engaged with an INPUT or TEXTAREA element and set a variable flag to true... and set that flag to false immediately after the user is no longer engaged with them (ie. they've clicked out of the INPUT/TEXTAREA elements).
I used jQuery's docuemnt.ready function to add the onclick attribute to my body element and assign it to my getActive() function.
The code for the getActive() function is as follows:
function getActive() { activeObj = document.activeElement; var inFocus = false; if (activeObj.tagName == "INPUT" || activeObj.tagName == "TEXTAREA") { inFocus = true; } }
I'd really like to keep by project withing the jQuery framework, but can't seem to find a way of accomplishing the same logic above using JUST jQuery syntax.
You want the focus and blur event handlers. For example...
var inFocus = false;
$('input, textarea').focus(function() {
inFocus = true;
});
$('input, textarea').blur(function() {
inFocus = false;
});
I'm pretty sure that a comma will get you input OR textarea, but you get the idea if that doesn't pan out
function getActive(){
return $(document.activeElement).is('input') || $(document.activeElement).is('textarea');
}
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