InputEvent: data property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.

The data read-only property of the InputEvent interface returns a string with inserted characters. This may be an empty string if the change doesn't insert text, such as when characters are deleted.

Value

A string or null. The spec has an overview of its value in various cases.

Examples

In the following example, an event listener receives the input event. Any textual change to the <input> element is retrieved by InputEvent.data and inserted into a paragraph using the Node.textContent property.

html
<p>Some text to copy and paste.</p>

<input type="text" />

<p class="result"></p>
js
const editable = document.querySelector("input");
const result = document.querySelector(".result");

editable.addEventListener("input", (e) => {
  result.textContent = `Inputted text: ${e.data}`;
});

Specifications

Specification
Input Events Level 2
# dfn-data

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
data

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