The paste event is fired when the user has initiated a "paste" action through the browser's user interface.
The original target for this event is the Element that was the intended target of the paste action. You can listen for this event on the Window interface to handle it in the capture or bubbling phases. For full details on this event please see the page on the Element: paste event.
Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.
js
addEventListener("paste", (event) => {}); onpaste = (event) => {};
A ClipboardEvent. Inherits from Event.
js
window.addEventListener("paste", (event) => { console.log("paste action initiated"); });
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
paste_event |
1 | 12 | 22 | 9["Before Internet Explorer 11, copying files does not trigger thepaste event.", "Before Internet Explorer 9, this event is not supported via addEventListener; however, the event handler is supported since IE 5.5. The event can be listened to via element.oncopy."] |
≤12.1 | 3 | ≤37 | 18 | 22 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 1.0 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/paste_event