jQuery alternative for document.activeElement

Question

What I wanted to do is figure out whenever the user is engaged with an INPUT or TEXTAREA element and set a variable flag to true... and set that flag to false immediately af

Answer 1

You want the focus and blur event handlers. For example...

var inFocus = false;
$('input, textarea').focus(function() {
  inFocus = true;
});

$('input, textarea').blur(function() {
  inFocus = false;
});

I'm pretty sure that a comma will get you input OR textarea, but you get the idea if that doesn't pan out