appium/docs/en/commands/element/other/active.md

Automation for Apps.

# Get Active Element

Gets the active element of the current session
## Example Usage

```java
// Java
WebElement currentElement = driver.switchTo().activeElement();

```

```python
# Python
element = driver.switch_to.active_element

```

```javascript
// Javascript
// webdriver.io example
driver.elementActive();



// wd example
let element = await driver.active();

```

```ruby
# Ruby
@driver.switch_to.active_element

```

```php
# PHP
// TODO PHP example

```

```csharp
// C#
// TODO C# example

```



## Support

### Appium Server

|Platform|Driver|Platform Versions|Appium Version|Driver Version|
|--------|----------------|------|--------------|--------------|
| iOS | [XCUITest](/docs/en/drivers/ios-xcuitest.md) | None | None | None |
|  | [UIAutomation](/docs/en/drivers/ios-uiautomation.md) | None | None | None |
| Android | [UiAutomator2](/docs/en/drivers/android-uiautomator2.md) | None | None | None |
|  | [UiAutomator](/docs/en/drivers/android-uiautomator.md) | None | None | None |
| Mac | [Mac](/docs/en/drivers/mac.md) | None | None | None |
| Windows | [Windows](/docs/en/drivers/windows.md) | None | None | None |

### Appium Clients

|Language|Support|Documentation|
|--------|-------|-------------|
|[Java](https://github.com/appium/java-client/releases/latest)| All |  [seleniumhq.github.io](https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/WebDriver.TargetLocator.html#activeElement--)  |
|[Python](https://github.com/appium/python-client/releases/latest)| All |  [selenium-python.readthedocs.io](http://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/api.html?highlight=active_element#selenium.webdriver.remote.webdriver.WebDriver.switch_to_active_element)  |
|[Javascript (WebdriverIO)](http://webdriver.io/index.html)| All |  [webdriver.io](http://webdriver.io/api/protocol/elementActive.html)  |
|[Javascript (WD)](https://github.com/admc/wd/releases/latest)| All |  [github.com](https://github.com/admc/wd/blob/master/lib/commands.js#L1934)  |
|[Ruby](https://github.com/appium/ruby_lib/releases/latest)| All |  [www.rubydoc.info](http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/selenium-webdriver/0.0.28/Selenium/WebDriver/TargetLocator#active_element-instance_method)  |
|[PHP](https://github.com/appium/php-client/releases/latest)| All |  [github.com](https://github.com/appium/php-client/)  |
|[C#](https://github.com/appium/appium-dotnet-driver/releases/latest)| All |  [github.com](https://github.com/appium/appium-dotnet-driver/)  |

## HTTP API Specifications

### Endpoint

`POST /wd/hub/session/:session_id/element/active`

### URL Parameters

None

### JSON Parameters

None

### Response

A JSON object for the located element (`object`)

## See Also

* [W3C Specification](https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/#get-active-element)
* [JSONWP Specification](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/JsonWireProtocol#sessionsessionidelementactive)