You do not have access to the clipboard.
(Only IE provides some mechanism for it)
And from what I remember there might be some implementations for other
browsers. I think using flash. But they're very hackish.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:14 PM, sonal.breed <sonal.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> How can I get the text from the clipboard when user is about to paste.
> For example, if user has copied the text "Jquery forum", I should get this
> text from
> the paste event.
>
> I tried to use
> $("#test").bind('paste', function(e) {
> alert(e.clipboardData.getData("Text"));
> });
>
>
> but I do not get anything.
> Can anybody give me any ideas??
>
> Thanks,
> Sincerely,
> Sonal.
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