diff --git a/packages/playwright-core/src/server/injected/injectedScript.ts b/packages/playwright-core/src/server/injected/injectedScript.ts
index 898573c7ea..371aa6ec51 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-core/src/server/injected/injectedScript.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-core/src/server/injected/injectedScript.ts
@@ -668,14 +668,19 @@ export class InjectedScript {
     return 'done';
   }
 
+  private _activelyFocused(node: Node): { activeElement: Element | null, isFocused: boolean } {
+    const activeElement = (node.getRootNode() as (Document | ShadowRoot)).activeElement;
+    const isFocused = activeElement === node && !!node.ownerDocument && node.ownerDocument.hasFocus();
+    return { activeElement, isFocused };
+  }
+
   focusNode(node: Node, resetSelectionIfNotFocused?: boolean): 'error:notconnected' | 'done' {
     if (!node.isConnected)
       return 'error:notconnected';
     if (node.nodeType !== Node.ELEMENT_NODE)
       throw this.createStacklessError('Node is not an element');
 
-    const activeElement = (node.getRootNode() as (Document | ShadowRoot)).activeElement;
-    const wasFocused = activeElement === node && node.ownerDocument && node.ownerDocument.hasFocus();
+    const { activeElement, isFocused: wasFocused } = this._activelyFocused(node);
     if ((node as HTMLElement).isContentEditable && !wasFocused && activeElement && (activeElement as HTMLElement | SVGElement).blur) {
       // Workaround the Firefox bug where focusing the element does not switch current
       // contenteditable to the new element. However, blurring the previous one helps.
@@ -1029,7 +1034,7 @@ export class InjectedScript {
       } else if (expression === 'to.be.enabled') {
         elementState = progress.injectedScript.elementState(element, 'enabled');
       } else if (expression === 'to.be.focused') {
-        elementState = document.activeElement === element;
+        elementState = this._activelyFocused(element).isFocused;
       } else if (expression === 'to.be.hidden') {
         elementState = progress.injectedScript.elementState(element, 'hidden');
       } else if (expression === 'to.be.visible') {
diff --git a/tests/playwright-test/playwright.expect.true.spec.ts b/tests/playwright-test/playwright.expect.true.spec.ts
index 8b6b892a6f..a4ea3fbcc7 100644
--- a/tests/playwright-test/playwright.expect.true.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/playwright-test/playwright.expect.true.spec.ts
@@ -352,6 +352,35 @@ test('should support toBeFocused', async ({ runInlineTest }) => {
   expect(result.exitCode).toBe(0);
 });
 
+test('should support toBeFocused with shadow elements', async ({ runInlineTest }) => {
+  const result = await runInlineTest({
+    'a.test.ts': `
+      const { test } = pwt;
+
+      test('focused', async ({ page }) => {
+        await page.setContent(\`
+          <div id="app">
+          </div>
+          <script>
+            const root = document.querySelector('div');
+            const shadowRoot = root.attachShadow({ mode: 'open' });
+            const input = document.createElement('input');
+            input.id = "my-input"
+            shadowRoot.appendChild(input);
+          </script>
+        \`);
+
+        await page.locator("input").focus();
+        expect(await page.evaluate(() => document.activeElement.shadowRoot.activeElement.id)).toBe("my-input");
+        await expect(page.locator("#app")).toBeFocused();
+        await expect(page.locator("input")).toBeFocused();
+      });
+      `,
+  }, { workers: 1 });
+  expect(result.passed).toBe(1);
+  expect(result.exitCode).toBe(0);
+});
+
 test('should print unknown engine error', async ({ runInlineTest }) => {
   const result = await runInlineTest({
     'a.test.ts': `