Disabling short cut keys in a textarea

[Jeideep Ramamoorthy Renganathan]

I have a new IssueTabpanel that displays contents that can be edited and saved by the user. I am using a div element with ContentEditable=True. Everything works fine except the fact that when the user edits the content by typing text, the JIRA shortcut keys get activated and user is unable to edit eg: on clicking "a", "assign user" tab opens up. 

I tried disabling all shortcut keys but that made it impossible to type"a" at all. My requirement is for the user to type in any letter without activating any shortcut.

I see a lot of examples for disabling one key, but my requirement is to disable all shortcuts but only withing that div element. Appreciate your help on this.

[Jeideep Ramamoorthy Renganathan]

If it is of any help to someone, I started using CKEditor and it seems to work fine.

[Jeideep Ramamoorthy Renganathan]

To clarify a bit more...The ideal solution for me would be to reuse the editable text area that comes up in the "Description" field of an issue. Can someone pls point me in the direction of any documentation for reusing it in the IssueTabPanel.