JAVASCRIPT - HOW TO Easily Detect Paste Event - Javascript Source Code

JAVASCRIPT - HOW TO Add an Event Listener to Easily Detect When the User Presses CTRL + V at the Same Time so you can Execute Javascript Code when the User Executes a Paste Operation.

Here is a very simple and clean way to detect, in javascript, when a web page visitor pastes something, meaning they where simutaneousely pressing the CTRL and the V key.

// ASSUMING THE ID OF A TEXT AREA YOU WANT TO DETECT A PASTE EVENT WITH IS [idExample] let txtExample = document.getElementById('idExample'); txtExample.addEventListener('keyup', (e) =>{ if(e.ctrlKey && e.key =='v'){ // code to execute on paste } });

Try this paste event handler code yourself. Paste something in the textarea below