How to select an element that has focus on it with jQuery

Question

How can you select an element that has current focus?

There is no :focus filter in jQuery, that is why we can use something like this:

$('input:focus').someFunction();

Answer 1

Really the best way to do it is to setup a handler for the onFocus event, and then set a variable to the ID of the element that has focus.

something like this:

var id;

$(":input").focus(function () {
     id = this.id;
});