ClipboardEvent: ClipboardEvent() constructor

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨April 2018⁩.

The ClipboardEvent() constructor returns a new ClipboardEvent, representing an event providing information related to modification of the clipboard, that is cut, copy, and paste events.

Syntax

new ClipboardEvent(type)
new ClipboardEvent(type, options)

Parameters

type

A string with the name of the type of the ClipboardEvent. It is case-sensitive and browsers set it to copy, cut, or paste.

options Optional

An object that, in addition of the properties defined in Event(), has the following properties:

clipboardData Optional: A DataTransfer object containing the data concerned by the clipboard event. It defaults to null.
dataType Non-standard Optional: A string containing the MIME-type of the data contained in the data argument. It defaults to "".
data Non-standard Optional: A string containing the data concerned by the clipboard event. It defaults to "".