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?
Solution
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.
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