The invention relates to the field of computer software, and discloses a focus element navigation method in a human-computer interface, which solves the problem of more occupied system resources during navigation by the prior art. The technical scheme has the key point that the method comprises the following steps of: a, establishing a data structure according to coordinates of the positions of elements and height and width data of the elements; b, filling the acquired coordinates and the height and width data of the elements in the data structure, and establishing an element management queueobject; c, when a navigation event comes, determining a set of navigable effective cutting elements, and judging whether the set is empty, if so, executing a step d, otherwise executing a step e; d, using the current focus element as a focus element after the navigation event is triggered, and turning to a step f; e, searching a focus element most close to the current focus element in the navigation direction, using the searched focus element as the focus element after the event is triggered, and turning to a step f; and f, acquiring the focus element after the navigation. The method has the advantages of less occupied system resources and high focus navigation efficiency, and is widely applied to various embedded devices.