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		meemoo on Sept 29, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Keypress: A Javascript library for capturing input My biggest issue is wanting to bind ctrl/meta-x/c/v to do what you think they would do in my UI (a graph editor), but not do anything in input fields. I can stopPropagation, but it is a pain to keep track of.

renekooi on Sept 29, 2013 [–]

You can attach an event to the window or some other higher-level element and check if event.target is an input field... something along the lines of:

    document.body.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {
      if (e.target.tagName !== 'INPUT') doKeyBindings();
    }, false);

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