diff --git a/css/app.css b/css/app.css
index c19af4367..10ebb095a 100644
--- a/css/app.css
+++ b/css/app.css
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ div.typeahead a:first-child {
 
 .notice {
     position:absolute;
-    top:60px;
+    top:0px;
     left:70px;
     width:250px;
     height:50px;
diff --git a/js/id/modes/add_area.js b/js/id/modes/add_area.js
index d604e0072..e3164b58d 100644
--- a/js/id/modes/add_area.js
+++ b/js/id/modes/add_area.js
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ iD.modes.AddArea = function() {
 
         map.surface.on('click.addarea', function() {
             var datum = d3.select(d3.event.target).datum() || {},
-                way = iD.Way({tags: { building: 'yes', area: 'yes' }});
+                way = iD.Way({tags: { area: 'yes' }});
 
             if (datum.type === 'node') {
                 // start from an existing node
diff --git a/js/id/renderer/map.js b/js/id/renderer/map.js
index af99cc057..5d03236ed 100644
--- a/js/id/renderer/map.js
+++ b/js/id/renderer/map.js
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ iD.Map = function() {
         alength = arrow.node().getComputedTextLength();
         arrow.remove();
 
-        notice = iD.notice(d3.select('body')
+        notice = iD.notice(supersurface
             .append('div')
             .attr('class', 'notice'));
 
diff --git a/js/id/ui/inspector.js b/js/id/ui/inspector.js
index b8c834cc8..741138a3c 100644
--- a/js/id/ui/inspector.js
+++ b/js/id/ui/inspector.js
@@ -106,25 +106,29 @@ iD.Inspector = function() {
                     .on('keydown.push-more', pushMore)
                     .each(bindTypeahead);
 
-                removeBtn = row.append('button')
+                var removeBtn = row.append('button')
+                    .attr('tabindex', -1)
                     .attr('class','remove minor')
                     .on('click', removeTag);
 
                 removeBtn.append('span').attr('class', 'icon remove');
 
-                helpBtn = row.append('button').attr('class', 'tag-help minor').append('a')
-                    .attr('target', '_blank')
+                var helpBtn = row.append('button')
                     .attr('tabindex', -1)
-                    .attr('href', function(d) {
-                        return 'http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/' + d.key;
-                    });
+                    .attr('class', 'tag-help minor')
+                    .append('a')
+                        .attr('tabindex', -1)
+                        .attr('target', '_blank')
+                        .attr('href', function(d) {
+                            return 'http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/' + d.key;
+                        });
 
                 helpBtn.append('span').attr('class', 'icon inspect');
             }
 
             function grabtags() {
                 var grabbed = [];
-                function grab(d) { grabbed.push(d); }
+                function grab(d) { if (d.key !== '') grabbed.push(d); }
                 inspectorwrap.selectAll('li').each(grab);
                 return grabbed;
             }