jQuery: detect pasting into a WYSIWYG editor

Question

I'm using htmlarea for my little CMS, and I was wondering if it's possible to detect if something gets pasted into it with jQuery?

Here is a similar question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/686995/jquery-catch-paste-input — orandov, Mar 03 '10 at 23:34

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 04 '10 at 18:50

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Try adding an Event Listener to your textarea for "keydown," and then looking out for keyCode == 86, that's the paste event. Now you can do whatever you want to happen when a user tries to paste.

Like this:

document.getElementById('YOURhtmlArea').addEventListener('keydown', 
function (foo)
{
     if (foo.keyCode == 86)
     {
          alert('SOMEONE IS PASTING');
          foo.preventDefault();
     }
});

I hope that helps.

edited Mar 04 '10 at 18:50

Peter Mortensen

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answered Mar 03 '10 at 23:37

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What happens if they use the mouse to paste text into the area? – orandov Mar 03 '10 at 23:50
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Not sure how, but ckEditor handles this. You could start tearing apart their code, it is open source. – Dustin Laine Mar 04 '10 at 19:58

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