Using jQuery to test if an input has focus

Question

On the front page of a site I am building, several

s use the CSS :hover pseudo-class to add a border when the mouse is over them. One of

Answer 1

What I wound up doing is creating an arbitrary class called .elementhasfocus which is added and removed within the jQuery focus() function. When the hover() function runs on mouse out, it checks for .elementhasfocus:

if(!$("#quotebox").is(".boxhasfocus")) $(this).removeClass("box_border");

So if it doesn't have that class (read: no elements within the div have focus) the border is removed. Otherwise, nothing happens.