Safari: focus event doesn't work on button element

Question

The focus event works fine on all browsers but Safari when it has been clicked.

And it works fine on div[tabindex] element, but don't work on button or input:button element.

It also can get the focus event when I use $('.btn').focus().

Why does the focus event haven't triggered on click ?

Here is my code:

$(".btn").focus(function (e) {
 $(".result").append("<p>Event:"+e.type+", target:"+e.target+"</p>");
})

.result{min-height:200px;border:1px solid #000;}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<button class="btn">button 1</button>
<input type="button" class="btn" value="button 2"/>
<div class="btn" tabindex="0">div element</div>
<h1>
Result:
</h1>
<div class="result">

</div>

score 13 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 05 '18 at 18:00

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Documentation tells is not supported: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/button#Clicking_and_focus

edited Nov 05 '18 at 18:00

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answered Nov 05 '18 at 15:57

Chris Tapay

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 30 '18 at 22:03

Why does the focus event haven't triggered on click ?

We found through research that Safari and FireFox on Macs do not set focus on buttons when you click on them.

The way we fixed that was to add a click listener to our buttons and call focus() on the button that was clicked.

In Angular it looked like this:

<button (click)="myClickFunction(); $event.target.focus();>My Button</button>

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 30 '18 at 22:11

See https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13724

This is working as intended on MacOS. Clicking a button, radio button, or checkbox doesn't give the element focus- thus it can't lose focus and trigger a blur.

The solution is to give it a click event that gives the element focus.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 06 '20 at 17:40

Angular 8+ solution:

in your button tag add #toggleButton and (click)="onClick(); $event.stopPropagation()"

exp:

<button #toggleButton type="button"
    (click)="onClick(); $event.stopPropagation()"></button>

in your component.ts add ==>before constructor

*** @ViewChild('toggleButton', { static: true }) toggleButton: ElementRef;

onclick(){
        this.toggleButton.nativeElement.focus();
}

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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This might fix the issue: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1269767/2731261

$(".btn").mouseup(function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
});

edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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answered Mar 14 '17 at 01:35

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I think that sames like not the same issue. It only reproduce on Safari. What I want is get the focus event on the button when clicked. – Woody Mar 14 '17 at 03:12
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Well I just found this documentation basically saying Safari does not focus the button after click: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/button#Clicking_and_focus – ken Mar 14 '17 at 03:58

Safari: focus event doesn't work on button element

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