Focus dectecting

I need to know if the user has focused on a text place

[adni18]

I need to know if an input field is focused.

[Rambo Tribble]

The onfocus HTML event handler will fire when the element is focused on. Just include it in the tag for the element and have it call the desired JavaScript action.

[adni18]

No! I mean that i need to know if the field is focused on at a given time, not as soon as it is focused on. This might help. I am trying to figure out if the document.selection.createRange() is inside of a textbox.

[Rambo Tribble]

I'm not aware of a standard way to directly test the focus of an element, but you could set a flag for the element with the onfocus event and unset it on the onblur event. Testing the flag's state would reveal the element's focus status.

IE 6 has a method, hasFocus(), that checks for a document having focus, but I don't believe it's granular enough to do what you want. It returns a Boolean true if the document or any of its elements has focus. You do realize createRange() is IE-only?