Javascript Just Get copyed text from clipboard on Chrome

Question

Can you tell me how can I just get text who is copied in clipboard. I don't want to make a copy because data are copied from Excel. In IE I use :

  var clipText = window.clipboardData.getData('Text');

And it's work perfect. Is it possible in chrome ? or maybe Firefox ?

Thanks for advance

Answer 1

The window.clipboardData object is only available in IE. It seems like a big security vulnerability to me for a website to be able to access your clipboard data, especially without you knowing. According to the specification, it's mostly deprecated as of Microsoft Edge.

Instead, you can access the data by listening to the paste event:

document.addEventListener('paste', function (event) {
  var clipText = event.clipboardData.getData('Text');
});

Answer 2

If you're looking to use jQuery and bind an element to the 'paste' event then you can access the clipboard data by using the originalEvent property on the calling event.

Check the window object to see if the clipboardData is undefined. This will mean that you're not using IE or Edge.

this.bind('paste', function(e){
if (window.clipboardData === undefined)
    clipText = e.originalEvent.clipboardData.getData('Text') // use this method in Chrome to get clipboard data.
else
    clipText = window.clipboardData.getData('Text') // use this method in IE/Edge to get clipboard data.
});