I've got a great editable text area going with wysihat and contentEditable. I really need a way to intercept paste events to either stop them, or process their DOM before allowing insertion. It's a little crazy they people can paste entire webpages into the editable areas.
Is this possible?
Come on future, arrive on my doorstep. HTML5 gurus, fire!
You can't access the content's that will be inserted.
What you can do is add an event listener that runs some cleanup code on Ctrl+V (with a timeout, so it sees the pasted text)
the onpaste event works fine, at least u can reject user insert behavior
someElement.onpaste = function() {
// doSomething()
return false; // to prevent user insert
}
The textInput event fires before the text is pasted, and is compatible with both ctrl+v and other ways of pasting text (like context menu's etc), it also has a property called .data which should/may hold the contents being pasted, but I've not seen this populated yet in browsers which do support the textInput event.
However, the input event fires /after/ the paste (when the dom has already changed), so I guess some coupling of the two of these could work in the interim.
Or.. you could just use the paste event ;)
