Detect input/textarea active

[wongadob]

Is there any way in jQuery or Javascript that you can detect if the current focused/activce element is a textarea or input area. The reason for this is I need to use hotkeys but they will be standard keys (i.e. not control+key) so I need to do a key listener and then make it ignore the keypress and fall through if the user is inputting text. I can do this by testing the ID for the ID's of all mt inputs/textareas, but that seems to be a tad long winded. Be great if there was something like $(document).currentactiveID But can't seem to find anything As always any help much appreciated

[eTianbun]

document.getElementById('formElement').type

[wongadob]

Thanks that worked fine once i got the Id. I had to find the Id first as the listener was on the body element

[ShadowMage]

You could use jQuery's :focus selector and then check the tag name:

if (($(':focus').attr('tagName') == 'textarea') || ($(':focus').attr('tagName') == 'input')) {  //do something}

[dsonesuk]

$("input[type='text'], textarea").focus( function(){alert("you have focused on a textarea or input of type text")});

To target all inputs remove '[type=text]', to target specific ID or class add to input selector input.myclass, input#myid