Finding out which control has focus

Question

Is there a way to figure out which control in my visualtree has focus? This is mostly for debugging.

every control has a property HasFocus. You might use it in some way to figure your requirements — Pankaj Upadhyay, Nov 10 '11 at 09:43

score 23 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 10 '11 at 09:44

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bool FocusedElement = FocusManager.GetFocusedElement() == textBox;

answered Nov 10 '11 at 09:44

The namespace is System.Windows.Input and is part of the PresentationCore.dll assembly. – crunchy Jun 06 '14 at 15:55
as described here [link](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.input.focusmanager.getfocusedelement?view=windowsdesktop-7.0#system-windows-input-focusmanager-getfocusedelement(system-windows-dependencyobject)) `FocusManager.GetFocusedElement()` requires the focus-scope as parameter. I used `FocusManager.GetFocusedElement(this)` – Tom667 Aug 25 '23 at 06:40

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