Get focus textarea id after click

Question

I need to obtain textarea id which was focused when i clicked another element.

I use $(':input:focus').attr('id') , but after click textarea looses focus immideatly and I cann't obtain id of textarea was selected.

Could somebody help?

Answer 1

Yes you can hold the id in a global variable to obtained it and one checked that currently which input type is focused.

Like it:

var areaId = $('textarea:focus').attr('id');

Either use above code or use below code:

var areaId = "";
//define this variable at the top of starting the javascript code.
areaId = $(':input:focus').attr('id');

Or you can use the focusout() function of jQUery:

$(':input').focusout(function(){
    var id = $(this).attr('id');
});

Answer 2

you can use .focusout() method:

$('#focusedItem').focusout(function() {
  var id = $(this).attr('id');
});