diff --git a/js/widgets/pagecontainer.js b/js/widgets/pagecontainer.js
index 6960652db58..d31fec5492c 100644
--- a/js/widgets/pagecontainer.js
+++ b/js/widgets/pagecontainer.js
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 		define( [
 			"jquery",
 			"../core",
+			"jquery-ui/core",
 			"../navigation/path",
 			"../navigation/base",
 			"../events/navigate",
@@ -954,12 +955,8 @@ $.widget( "mobile.pagecontainer", {
 	},
 
 	transition: function( toPage, triggerData, settings ) {
-		var fromPage, url, pageUrl, fileUrl,
-			active, activeIsInitialPage,
-			historyDir, pageTitle, isDialog,
-			alreadyThere, newPageTitle,
-			params, cssTransitionDeferred,
-			beforeTransition;
+		var fromPage, url, pageUrl, fileUrl, active, activeIsInitialPage, historyDir, pageTitle,
+			isDialog, alreadyThere, newPageTitle, params, cssTransitionDeferred, beforeTransition;
 
 		// If we are in the midst of a transition, queue the current request.
 		// We'll call changePage() once we're done with the current transition
@@ -1055,22 +1052,8 @@ $.widget( "mobile.pagecontainer", {
 			historyDir = settings.direction === "back" ? -1 : 1;
 		}
 
-		// Kill the keyboard.
-		// XXX_jblas: We need to stop crawling the entire document to kill focus.
-		//            Instead, we should be tracking focus with a delegate()
-		//            handler so we already have the element in hand at this
-		//            point.
-		// Wrap this in a try/catch block since IE9 throw "Unspecified error" if
-		// document.activeElement is undefined when we are in an IFrame.
-		try {
-			if ( document.activeElement &&
-					document.activeElement.nodeName.toLowerCase() !== "body" ) {
-
-				$( document.activeElement ).blur();
-			} else {
-				$( "input:focus, textarea:focus, select:focus" ).blur();
-			}
-		} catch ( e ) {}
+		// We blur the focused element to cause the virtual keyboard to disappear
+		$.ui.safeBlur( $.ui.safeActiveElement( this.document[ 0 ] ) );
 
 		// Record whether we are at a place in history where a dialog used to be -
 		// if so, do not add a new history entry and do not change the hash either
diff --git a/js/widgets/popup.js b/js/widgets/popup.js
index e8fe82c3bae..afdeb62b047 100644
--- a/js/widgets/popup.js
+++ b/js/widgets/popup.js
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 		// AMD. Register as an anonymous module.
 		define( [
 			"jquery",
+			"jquery-ui/core",
 			"../widget",
 			"../support",
 			"../events/navigate",
@@ -365,9 +366,10 @@ $.widget( "mobile.popup", {
 		if ( targetElement !== ui.container[ 0 ] ) {
 			target = $( targetElement );
 			if ( !$.contains( ui.container[ 0 ], targetElement ) ) {
-				$( this.document[ 0 ].activeElement ).one( "focus", $.proxy( function() {
-					this._safelyBlur( targetElement );
-				}, this ) );
+				$( $.ui.safeActiveElement( this.document[ 0 ] ) ).one( "focus",
+					$.proxy( function() {
+						$.ui.safeBlur( targetElement );
+					}, this ) );
 				ui.focusElement.focus();
 				theEvent.preventDefault();
 				theEvent.stopImmediatePropagation();
@@ -700,24 +702,18 @@ $.widget( "mobile.popup", {
 		}
 	},
 
-	_safelyBlur: function( currentElement ) {
-		if ( currentElement !== this.window[ 0 ] &&
-				currentElement.nodeName.toLowerCase() !== "body" ) {
-			$( currentElement ).blur();
-		}
-	},
-
 	_openPrerequisitesComplete: function() {
 		var id = this.element.attr( "id" ),
-			firstFocus = this._ui.container.find( ":focusable" ).first();
+			firstFocus = this._ui.container.find( ":focusable" ).first(),
+			focusElement = $.ui.safeActiveElement( this.document[ 0 ] );
 
 		this._ui.container.addClass( "ui-popup-active" );
 		this._isOpen = true;
 		this._resizeScreen();
 
 		// Check to see if currElement is not a child of the container.  If it's not, blur
-		if ( !$.contains( this._ui.container[ 0 ], this.document[ 0 ].activeElement ) ) {
-			this._safelyBlur( this.document[ 0 ].activeElement );
+		if ( focusElement && !$.contains( this._ui.container[ 0 ], focusElement ) ) {
+			$.ui.safeBlur( focusElement );
 		}
 		if ( firstFocus.length > 0 ) {
 			this._ui.focusElement = firstFocus;