Get clipboard data in ng-paste directive?

Question

I'm using angularjs 1.3.2. How to get clipboard data on paste event?

This question is like: "Paste" event in Angular [ngPaste]

But in this question, the angularjs version is 1.2. And this is not working in angularjs 1.3.2.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I made this plunkr in 1.3.17, the main things to take in account are:

• You can pass the $event variable to your ngPaste handler in the view, which in turn has a method to get clipboard contents:

ng-paste="processCb($event)"

• In the event handler, clipboard data can be accessed through the getData method

event.clipboardData.getData('Text')

• .getData expects one argument which is the type of data you want to intercept, more on that: https://w3c.github.io/clipboard-apis/#widl-ClipboardEvent-clipboardData

• Also important: this is still a draft and all of this could become useless in the future.