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The onpaste attribute fires when the user pastes some content in an element."
The onpaste
attribute fires when the user pastes some content in an element.
onpaste
attribute is supported by all HTML
elements, it is not actually possible to paste some content in, for example, a <p>
element, UNLESS the element has set contenteditable to "true" (See "More Examples"
below).
onpaste
attribute is mostly used on <input> elements
with type="text".
The onpaste
attribute is part of the Event Attributes, and can be used on any HTML elements.
Elements | Event |
---|---|
All HTML elements | onpaste |
Execute a JavaScript when pasting some text in an <input> element:
<input type="text" onpaste="myFunction()" value="Paste something in here">
Execute a JavaScript when pasting some text in a <p> element (Note that contenteditable is set to "true"):
<p contenteditable="true" onpaste="myFunction()">Try to paste something inside this paragraph.</p>
Event Attribute | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
onpaste | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |