Is there a way to capture a clipboard paste event w jQuery?

Question

I want to trigger an event when a user pastes.

I have a contenteditable div and when the user pastes I want to capture the event and then focus back into the contenteditable div at the end of the paste which does not happen by default.

Ideas?

Thanks

possible duplicate of [jQuery catch paste input](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/686995/jquery-catch-paste-input) — Jared Farrish, Oct 23 '11 at 21:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 23 '11 at 21:36

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I do not know, if this works cross-browser, it's working in Chrome:

$('body').bind('paste',function(){alert(1)});

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For the cross-browser support I found an article on quirks mode: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/events/cutcopypaste.html – topek Oct 23 '11 at 21:39

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 23 '11 at 21:36

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You can bind to the 'paste' event -

jQuery(document).bind('paste', function(e){ alert('pasting!') })

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Is there a way to capture a clipboard paste event w jQuery?

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