Any other alternative to capturing text on Ctrl+V

Question

I am trying to capture the text on Ctrl+V event as below..

1. Creating a textarea in the page and setting height 0px and width 0px. like below

     <textarea id="a" style="height:0px;width:0px"></textarea>
   

2. On pressing V key i am setting the focus to that textarea and then using Ctrl+V button. Like below..

    shortcut.add("X",function() {
     $('#a').focus();
    });
    // In between user have to press Ctrl+V to paste the content
    shortcut.add("V",function() {
     alert($('#a').val());
    });
   

I think this as a most inefficient approach and waiting for valuable suggestions to improve this..

Answer 1

You can attach events to the paste event.

$('textarea').bind('paste', function() {
   // Hello, Mr. Paste!
});