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Intercept paste event in Javascript

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You can intercept the paste event by attaching an “onpaste” handler and get the pasted text by using “window.clipboardData.getData(‘Text’)” in IE or “event.clipboardData.getData(‘text/plain’)” in other browsers. For example: var myElement = document.getElementById(‘pasteElement’); myElement.onpaste = function(e) { var pastedText = undefined; if (window.clipboardData && window.clipboardData.getData) { // IE pastedText = window.clipboardData.getData(‘Text’); } else if (e.clipboardData && … Read more

jQuery bind to Paste Event, how to get the content of the paste

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There is an onpaste event that works in modern day browsers. You can access the pasted data using the getData function on the clipboardData object. $(“#textareaid”).bind(“paste”, function(e){ // access the clipboard using the api var pastedData = e.originalEvent.clipboardData.getData(‘text’); alert(pastedData); } ); Note that bind and unbind are deprecated as of jQuery 3. The preferred call … Read more

Replace word with contents of paste buffer?

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I’m thinking by “paste” you mean the unnamed (yank/put/change/delete/substitute) register, right? (Since that’s the one that’d get overwritten by the change command.) Registers are generally specified by typing ” then the name (single character) of the register, like “ay then “ap to yank into register a, then put the contents of register a. Same goes … Read more

Paste multiple columns together

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# your starting data.. data <- data.frame(‘a’ = 1:3, ‘b’ = c(‘a’,’b’,’c’), ‘c’ = c(‘d’, ‘e’, ‘f’), ‘d’ = c(‘g’, ‘h’, ‘i’)) # columns to paste together cols <- c( ‘b’ , ‘c’ , ‘d’ ) # create a new column `x` with the three columns collapsed together data$x <- apply( data[ , cols ] … Read more

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