React. preventDefault() for onCopy event does not work

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to make the clipboard events return false on the onCopy event. I use for test the onCopy handler and e.preventDefault() method. But text is copied without obstacles to the buffer! What is I miss?

Thank You in Advance.

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
import ReactDOMServer from 'react-dom/server';
import './index.css';


class Copy extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.state = {
      time: '',
      timer: false,
      counter: 0
    };

    this.handlerCopy = this.handlerCopy.bind(this);
  }

  handlerCopy(e) {

    e.preventDefault(); // must prevent the current event

    this.setState(prevState => ({
      counter: prevState.counter + 1
    }));

    alert('Don\'t copy it!');
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <React.Fragment>
        <p onCopy={this.handlerCopy}>Copy me!</p>
        <p>Copy count: {this.state.counter}</p>
      </React.Fragment>
    );
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(
<Copy />,
document.getElementById('root'));

Answer 1

It's a really good question!

This happens because React’s actual event listener is also at the root of the document, meaning the click event has already bubbled to the root. You can use e.nativeEvent.stopImmediatePropagation() to prevent other event listeners.

Try it:

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
import ReactDOMServer from 'react-dom/server';
import './index.css';


class Copy extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.state = {
      time: '',
      timer: false,
      counter: 0
    };

    this.handlerCopy = this.handlerCopy.bind(this);
  }

  handlerCopy(e) {
    console.log(e.target.innerHTML);
    e.preventDefault();
    e.nativeEvent.stopImmediatePropagation();

    this.setState(prevState => ({
      counter: prevState.counter + 1
    }));

    alert('Don\'t copy it!');
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <React.Fragment>
        <p onCopy={this.handlerCopy}>Copy me!</p>
        <p>Copy count: {this.state.counter}</p>
      </React.Fragment>
    );
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(
<Copy />,
document.getElementById('root'));