Question

How do I test which element has the focus in Selenium RC?

Answer 1

I couldn’t get the :focus pseudoclass idea to work, not sure why – targeting css=#search_input input.text matched, but css=#search_input input.text:focus didn’t? But here is what worked for me:

self.assertEquals(self.se.get_element_index('dom=document.activeElement'),
     self.se.get_element_index('//input[@id="search-query"]'))

This is using the Python Selenium API, so the get_element_index() calls are wrappers around the core Selenium command list. Adapt this to your environment. It’s evaluating the element index of the document’s focused element (gotten with a Javascript DOM locator) and the element index of the element you want to test for focus (gotten with an XPath locator.) Also see this question.