I have an angularjs directive which listens to on paste event of my textarea:
element.on('paste', function (event) { }); How do i get the pasted text? I tried:
event.clipboardData.getData('text/plain') ... and:
event.originalEvent.clipboardData ... but both didn't work. Any suggestions would be helpful.
It's really simple actually. You can just get the text with element.val() but you need to put it into setTimeout.
I did an example for you.
Working JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/vxcjw45d/
HTML:
<body ng-app="myApp"> <div ng-controller="myController"> <textarea paste-example></textarea> <div>{{ pastedText }}</div> </div> </body> Javascript:
var myApp = angular.module('myApp', []); myApp.controller('myController', function($scope) { $scope.pastedText = ''; }); myApp.directive('pasteExample', function(){ var linkFn = function(scope, element, attrs) { element.on('paste', function() { setTimeout(function() { console.log(element.val()); scope.pastedText = element.val(); scope.$apply(); }, 5); }); }; return { restrict: 'A', link: linkFn }; }); 