Question

Within this function I want to check that the focused input is a specific input, I want to do this by matching the input names together.

Is something like the below snippet possible?

$('body').on("keyup", "input", function() {

    if( $(this) == $('input[name="title"]'))
        alert('ok');

});

When I console.log $(this) it returns an object. I’m not sure how I’d go about checking the object for the input name.

Answer 1

I’m not sure about object comparision but you could use instead

if ($(this).attr('name') == 'title')
    alert('OK');

avoiding creation of object juste for comparison 😉

You can also write a more specific filter to directly listen on the good element :

$('body').on("keyup", "input[name=title]", function() {

    // do your stuff

});