Get current clipboard content

Question

I d like to know a way to make my script detect the content of the clipboard and paste it into a text field when the page is opened  with no input from the user  How can it be done

User · Answer

You can use  window clipboardData getData  Text     to get the content of user s clipboard in IE  However  in other browser you may need to use flash to get the content  since there is no standard interface to access the clipboard  May be you can have try this plugin Zero Clipboard

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Use the new clipboard API  via navigator clipboard  It can be used like this  navigator clipboard readText      then text   gt        console log  Pasted content     text           catch err   gt        console error  Failed to read clipboard contents     err          Or with async syntax  const text   await navigator clipboard readText     Keep in mind that this will prompt the user with a permission request dialog box  so no funny business possible  The above code will not work if called from the console  It only works when you run the code in an active tab  To run the code from your console you can set a timeout and click in the website window quickly  setTimeout async      gt      const text   await navigator clipboard readText      console log text      2000    Read more on the API and usage in the Google developer docs  Spec

User · Answer

Following will give you the selected content as well as updating the clipboard  Bind the element id with copy event and then get the selected text  You could replace or modify the text  Get the clipboard and set the new text  To get the exact formatting you need to set the type as  quot text hmtl quot   You may also bind it to the document instead of element  document querySelector  element   bind  copy   function event      var selectedText   window getSelection   toString       selectedText   selectedText replace   u200B g   quot  quot       clipboardData   event clipboardData    window clipboardData    event originalEvent clipboardData    clipboardData setData  text html   selectedText      event preventDefault

User · Answer

window clipboardData getData  Text   will work in some browsers   However  many browsers where it does work will prompt the user as to whether or not they wish the web page to have access to the clipboard

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