Question

I attached the delete key to document so when delete key is pressed, div gets removed. However when i’m inside a textarea, i don’t want this behavior. The delete key inside textarea should only delete text and not affect the document and deleting the div. The following is not working;

$(document).keyup(function() {
    if (e.which == 46) {
        $('div').remove()
    }
})

Check http://jsfiddle.net/a3Vdu/2/

Answer 1

A check against the type of element that triggered the event will work.

if (/input|textarea/i.test(e.target.tagName)) {
     return;   
}

Here’s it added to your example
http://jsfiddle.net/JY46t/