How to get activeElement's role using jQuery or Javascript

Question

I am trying to get the active element's role attribute. I can get all the other attributes like id, class, title and so on, as below

document.activeElement.title

document.activeElement.class

document.activeElement.tabindex

...but I can't get the role attribute using document.activeElement.role. It throws undefined.

How do I get the role attribute?

Answer 1

document.activeElement.getAttribute('role');