How to pass css :active pseudo class to javascript?

Question

Reference: Comments posted by @AnkithAmtange

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Given html

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css

div {
  width:          


        

Answer 1

You can use the document.activeElement for that.

$(function() {
  $(document).on('click', function() {
    console.log(document.activeElement);
  });
});

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Update

If you want to pass the current :active element - you must use the mousedown (and not the click event), because the :active element is not active anymore once your mouse is up.

Since the :active bubbles up the DOM tree, all the parent elements will also get the :active pseudo-class (added a red border in the following example) so I took only the last element in the $(':active') selector.

Check this example:

$(document).ready(function() {
  var active;
  $(document).mousedown(function() {
    active = $(":active");
    setTimeout(function() {
      console.log("active", active.last()[0])
    }, 1000)
  })
})

div {
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  background: orange
}
div:active {
  color: white;
  background: rebeccapurple
}
:active {
  border: 1px solid red;
}

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