jQuery on Click/focus text input, set clipboard data

Question

Is it possible for jQuery to autopaste clipboard data on click a text input field? something like this:

<input type="text" name="auto" id="autoset">

And jQuery

<script>
$("#autoset").on("click",function(){
    $(this).val(getClipboardData());
});
//OR
$("#autoset").on("focus",function(){
   $(this).val(getClipboardData());
});
</script>

I mean, how do I write the getClipboardData() function.

$("#autoset").on("click",function(){ $(this).val(getClipboardData()); }); use this — Karthik Ganesan, May 19 '17 at 15:00
In browsers which support it, you can use `window.clipboardData.getData('Text')`, however it will ask the user to confirm they allow the browser to access the clipboard. In browsers which do not support this, there is no way to access the clipboard in JS — Rory McCrossan, May 19 '17 at 15:00

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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You need to pass it as an argument in order to set value using val() method and you can combine multiple events by separating them using space.

$("#autoset").on("click focus",function(){
    $(this).val(getClipboardData());
    // or
    // this.value = getClipboardData();
});

Refer following question for getting clipboard data : Get current clipboard content?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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answered May 19 '17 at 15:00

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I think the question is more 'How do I write the `getClipboardData()` function'. I could be wrong though – Rory McCrossan May 19 '17 at 15:01
@RoryMcCrossan Yes that is my point, how to I write that function – Anthony TeslaX25 May 19 '17 at 16:32
In which case please see the comment I left on the question – Rory McCrossan May 19 '17 at 18:13

jQuery on Click/focus text input, set clipboard data

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