Javascript Just Get copyed text from clipboard on Chrome

Question

Can you tell me how can I just get text who is copied in clipboard. I don't want to make a copy because data are copied from Excel. In IE I use :

  var clipText = window.clipboardData.getData('Text');

And it's work perfect. Is it possible in chrome ? or maybe Firefox ?

Thanks for advance

Answer 1

The window.clipboardData object is only available in IE. It seems like a big security vulnerability to me for a website to be able to access your clipboard data, especially without you knowing. According to the specification, it's mostly deprecated as of Microsoft Edge.

Instead, you can access the data by listening to the paste event:

document.addEventListener('paste', function (event) {
  var clipText = event.clipboardData.getData('Text');
});