How to check textarea is focus or not?

Asked Jan 19 '19 at 07:16

Active Jan 21 '19 at 09:37

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I can't check textarea is focused or not. I'll try with following code but it does't work.

    const msg_area = document.getElementById('msg-area') as HTMLInputElement;
    if (msg-area.hasFocus()) {
        // somecode
    }

But it doesnot work. There was an error that hasFocus() not found. hasFocus() not a property of HtmlInputElement.

edited Jan 21 '19 at 09:37

asked Jan 19 '19 at 07:16

Santanu

Welcome to StackOverflow, Please read [how to ask question](https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve) – Dev Jan 19 '19 at 07:33
Possible duplicate of [Why isn't this textarea focusing with .focus()?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8380759/why-isnt-this-textarea-focusing-with-focus) – Morteza Jalambadani Jan 19 '19 at 07:58
You have a typo in your code, it should be `if (msg_area.hasFocus())` – Stefan Becker Jan 19 '19 at 08:00
I'll try but it not works. – Santanu Jan 19 '19 at 09:02

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