Textarea Paste clipboard text button 2

timesign · Mar 30, 2004

What is the Javascript required for a button that pastes the text of the clipboard to the form's textarea.
In other words I don't want users to have to use ctrl-v only but they should also have a "paste clipboard" button.
Thanks a load

adam0101 · Mar 30, 2004

In IE it's document.execCommand("PASTE") after the element has focus. Not sure about NS.

Adam
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kaht · Mar 30, 2004

Alternatively you can also use the clipboardData object, it might have compatibility with netscape. Here's an example:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Blah</title>
<script language=JavaScript>
function cb() {
   blahForm.blahTextarea.value = window.clipboardData.getData("Text");
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name=blahForm>
<input type=button value='Click Me' onclick='cb()'>
<br>
<textarea name=blahTextarea></textarea>
</form>
</body>
</html>

-kaht

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