Changing browser tabs undesirably fires the focus event, especially in Google Chrome

Question

I\'ve got a little issue with the focus event that I just became aware of. Apparently, focus fires when switching to another browser tab and then back again. I\'d rather not hav

Answer 1

Try this to get around the problem:

var times = 0, foc=true;

$(window).on('focus', function() {
    foc = false;
    setTimeout(function() {foc=true}, 200);
});

$('input').on('focus', function() {
    if (foc || times===0) {
        times ++;
        $(this).after('
Focused '+times+' times');   
    }
});

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