HTMLElement: paste event
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.
The paste
event fires when the user initiates a paste action through the browser's user interface.
Syntax
Use the event name in methods like addEventListener()
, or set an event handler property.
js
addEventListener("paste", (event) => {});
onpaste = (event) => {};
Event type
A ClipboardEvent
. Inherits from Event
.
Event properties
Also inherits properties from its parent Event
.
ClipboardEvent.clipboardData
Read only-
A
DataTransfer
object containing the data affected by the user-initiatedcut
,copy
, orpaste
operation, along with its MIME type.
Example
This example logs every copy and paste attempt to the <textarea>
.
HTML
html
<h3>Play with this text area:</h3>
<textarea id="editor" rows="3">
Try copying and pasting text into this field!
</textarea>
<h3>Log:</h3>
<p id="log"></p>
JavaScript
js
function logCopy(event) {
log.innerText = `Copied!\n${log.innerText}`;
}
function logPaste(event) {
log.innerText = `Pasted!\n${log.innerText}`;
}
const editor = document.getElementById("editor");
const log = document.getElementById("log");
editor.oncopy = logCopy;
editor.onpaste = logPaste;
Result
Specifications
Specification |
---|
Clipboard API and events # clipboard-event-paste |
HTML Standard # handler-onpaste |
Browser compatibility
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