Is it possible to detect whether text has been cut and pasted into a textbox on a webpage?

Question

Is it possible using some sort of client side code to detect cut and paste?

The only solution I can think of is to constantly get the text length and if it changes drastically over a certain period, then assume text was pasted.

Answer 1

It seems like the only way you'd know if the text changed through all the crazy ways text can be inserted into a textbox might be to monitor the value in an Interval...checking for when the next interval value was different from the previous...that would detect any form of change but it isn't a very neat solution (seems overkill)...

Answer 2

Yes. Add a keydown event listener and look for keyCode 86 and e.ctrlKey == true. It looks like this has been asked and answered in this post and this post