Question

I’m using Ctrl+Left / Ctrl+Right in a GreaseMonkey script as a hotkey to turn back / forward pages. It seems to works fine, but I want to disable this behavior if I’m in a text edit area. I’m trying to use document.activeElement to get the page active element and test if it’s an editable area, but it always returns ‘undefined’.

Answer 1

document.activeElement works for me in FF3 but the following also works

(function() {  var myActiveElement; document.onkeypress = function(event) {     if ((myActiveElement || document.activeElement || {}).tagName != 'INPUT')         // do your magic }; if (!document.activeElement) {     var elements = document.getElementsByTagName('input');     for(var i=0; i<elements.length; i++) {         elements[i].addEventListener('focus',function() {             myActiveElement = this;         },false);         elements[i].addEventListener('blur',function() {             myActiveElement = null;         },false);     } }  })();