Simulating “focus” and “blur” in jQuery .live() method

Question

Update: As of jQuery 1.4, $.live() now supports focusin and focusout events.

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Answer 1

live() is jQuery's shortcut to event delegation. To answer your question, see Delegating the focus and blur events.

It's pretty ingenious: for standards compliant browsers he uses event capturing to trap those events. For IE he uses IE's proprietary focusin (for focus) and focusout (for blur) events, which do bubble, allowing traditional event delegation.

I'll leave the porting of it to jQuery as an exercise.