Question

On my site I have registered a keypress event handler for the whole document.

$(document).keypress(myhandler);

And I handle the ‘space’ key to scroll a list.

Trouble is, there is an <input type='text' /> element, and I don’t want ‘space’ keypress to scroll the list when it is entered in the input.

I couldn’t find any information in the “event” object passed by JQuery to the handler, to identify where the source of the event is.

Answer 1

Alternatively, you could attach another event handler to the input field, and in this handler stop the propagation of the event:

jQuery('#input-field-id').bind('keypress', function(e) {
    e.stopPropagation(); 
});

This way, you can leave the global event handler as it is. Might be cleaner.