focus question

[aqeelahmad]

is it possible in javascript to find if a control has focus?

[DeadEyes]

each control has an onfocus event which you could use to set a global variable to indicate which control fired it

<script>
var gControlFocus;
:
function setControl(str){
 gControlFocus = str;
}
</script>
:
<input type="text" name="txt1" onfocus="setControl(this.name);">

[aqeelahmad]

what if user clicks on empty place or any link, your global variable will still be containing last focused element, I need the currently focused element

[DeadEyes]

Is this any better

document.activeElement.name

Edit: that is probably IE specific

[aqeelahmad]

YESS! THANKS!