Differentiate between focus event triggered by keyboard/mouse

Question

I\'m using jquery ui autocomplete and want to decipher between focus events triggered by keyboard interaction and mouse interaction. How would I go about this?

Answer 1

You should actually be able to determine this from the event-Object that is passed into the focus-event. Depending on your code structure this might be different, but there is usually a property called originalEvent in there, which might be nested to some depth. Examine the event-object more closely to determine the correct syntax. Then test on mousenter or keydown via regular expression. Something like this:

focus: function(event, ui){
  if(/^key/.test(event.originalEvent.originalEvent.type)){
    //code for keydown
  }else{
    //code for mouseenter and any other event
  }
}