Disable keyboard shortcut in textarea

Question

I am using something like this:

jQuery(document).keydown(function(e){
  // code
}

For switching photos in photoalbum with arrow keys.. It works great, but! I want to disable in textarea. Because, if I am commenting a photo and I want to move cursor with arrow keys, I switch photo and lose my text :)

How to disable it? Can I catch, which element is focused? Thank you

Answer 1

You can check to see if the target element is a textarea.

jQuery(document).keydown(function(e){
    var target = e.target || e.srcElement;
    if ( target.tagName !== "TEXTAREA" ) {
        // code
    }
});