Check whether some element is “focused” without jQuery
I was almost sure I could find the answer here, but I wasn't successful. How would you check whether is there some object selected (focused) on the moment of the event call? I tried if (document.activeElement == "[object HTMLBodyElement]") , but apparently the .activeElement is being filled onLoad. I am not allowed to use jQuery, only mootools. Thanks a lot for the help! https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/document.activeElement - as pointed out, if no element is focused, the document body is focused by default: if (document.activeElement != document.body) { // something else than the body is