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Focus events on IE 11 on Windows 7

I am trying to catch focus in and focus out on the entire web page. I am using:

function focus_in(){
  console.log("focus");
}

function focus_out(){
  console.log("blur");
}

window.addEventListener("focus", focus_in, false);
window.addEventListener("blur", focus_out, false);

and it is working well on Chrome. However on Windows 7 with IE 11 10 the focus event is being followed by an unwanted blur event.

I have tried:

window.onfocusout = focus_out
window.onfocusin = focus_in
Solution

  • So apparently the debug window (console) is gaining focus whenever it is being written on, so whenever I wrote focus on the console it immediately lost focus as well.