From 3936cf3ef355a556d7990c77bbcacb69208fa4ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?Micha=C5=82=20Go=C5=82=C4=99biowski-Owczarek?=
 <m.goleb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:48:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Selector: Wrap activeElement access in try-catch

In IE 9 accessing `document.activeElement` may throw; see
https://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/13393. We've already guarded
against this in event code but not in selector.

Closes gh-5229
---
 src/selector.js | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/selector.js b/src/selector.js
index 147a2e25c..2c8f04556 100644
--- a/src/selector.js
+++ b/src/selector.js
@@ -163,6 +163,17 @@ var i,
 		{ dir: "parentNode", next: "legend" }
 	);
 
+// Support: IE <=9 only
+// Accessing document.activeElement can throw unexpectedly
+// https://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/13393
+// An identical function exists in `src/event.js` but they use different
+// `documents` so it cannot be easily extracted.
+function safeActiveElement() {
+	try {
+		return document.activeElement;
+	} catch ( err ) { }
+}
+
 // Optimize for push.apply( _, NodeList )
 try {
 	push.apply(
@@ -1316,7 +1327,7 @@ Expr = jQuery.expr = {
 		},
 
 		focus: function( elem ) {
-			return elem === document.activeElement &&
+			return elem === safeActiveElement() &&
 				document.hasFocus() &&
 				!!( elem.type || elem.href || ~elem.tabIndex );
 		},
-- 
2.39.5