javascript - Crossbrowser equivalent of explicitOriginalTarget event parameter

Question

Does anyone know of crossbrowser equivalent of explicitOriginalTarget event parameter? This parameter is Mozilla specific and it gives me the element that caused the blur. Let's say i have a text input and a link on my page. Text input has the focus. If I click on the link, text input's blur event gives me the link element in Firefox via explicitOriginalTarget parameter.

I am extending Autocompleter.Base's onBlur method to not hide the search results when search field loses focus to given elements. By default, onBlur method hides if search-field loses focus to any element.

Autocompleter.Base.prototype.onBlur = Autocompleter.Base.prototype.onBlur.wrap(
function(origfunc, ev) {
    var newTargetElement = (ev.explicitOriginalTarget.nodeType == 3 ? ev.explicitOriginalTarget.parentNode: ev.explicitOriginalTarget); // FIX: This works only in firefox because of event's explicitOriginalTarget property
    var callOriginalFunction = true;
    for (i = 0; i < obj.options.validEventElements.length; i++) {
        if ($(obj.options.validEventElements[i])) {
            if (newTargetElement.descendantOf($(obj.options.validEventElements[i])) == true || newTargetElement == $(obj.options.validEventElements[i])) {
                callOriginalFunction = false;
                break;
            }
        }
    }
    if (callOriginalFunction) {
        return origFunc(ev);
    }
}
);


new Ajax.Autocompleter("search-field", "search-results", 'getresults.php', { validEventElements: ['search-field','result-count'] });

Thanks.

Answer 1

There is no equivalent to explicitOriginalTarget in any of the other than Gecko-based browsers. In Gecko this is an internal property and it is not supposed to be used by an application developer (maybe by XBL binding writers).