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Asked: 2026-06-12T05:08:35+00:00

I’m trying to select the entire document except for a certain div. In my

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I’m trying to select the entire document except for a certain div. In my belief the code below should work but it isn’t. Can anyone see what I’m doing wrong?

$(document:not("#test")).bind('keydown',function(e){
  switch(e.which) {
  case 8:
  $("#status").append("<br/>captured");
  break;
  default:
  break;
  }
});

HTML to go with:

<textarea id="test" ></textarea><br/>
<input type="text" id="message"/>
<div id="status"></div>

I have also tried several variants of this

//$("*:not(#message)").bind('keydown',function(e){
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  1. Editorial Team

    You are mixing an object (document) with a jQuery selector (:not("#test")). That makes it invalid syntax, as the selector should be inside a string.

    If it would have run, you would have selected all document objects (the only one) except the ones with id="test" (none, as the document object doesn’t have HTML attributes).

    Perhaps you actually want to select all elements inside the body, except that div?

    $('body *:not(#test)')
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