Question

I am selecting all tags that are not input tags to bind a hotkey to.

$('*').not('input').bindHotKey(blah);

However, this doesn’t seem to exclude the password field in chrome. ie: <input type="password"/>

Answer 1

Try to only select the descendants of the body element:

$('body *').not('input').bindHotKey(blah);

DEMO

Update:
But it even seems to work with $('*'). Have a look at this fiddle. Without not there are 11 elements in the page, with not, 10.