I need to get all of the pasted string in input which has a maxLength attribute.
But in 'onpaste' event there is no property to get all of the pasted string.
For example, check below snippet with this string:
"AAAAA-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB"
The output is : "AAAAA"
But I need all of the string.
const onPasteFn = (e) => {
setTimeout(() => document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = e.target.value, 0)
}<input type="text" maxLength="5" onpaste="onPasteFn(event)" />
<p id="demo"></p>Consider using clipboardData from the event, where you can use getData() to grab the text that was pasted from the clipboard like so:
const onPasteFn = (e) => {
document.getElementById("demo").textContent = (e.clipboardData || window.clipboardData).getData('text');
}<input type="text" maxLength="5" onpaste="onPasteFn(event)" />
<p id="demo"></p>See example here from the docs. Note that the fallback of || window.clipboardData is used for IE support.
You can access clipboardData through function getData(), and print it instead of e.target.value(). If you store it in a temporary variable, like I did in my example, you are able to perform further elaboration on the pasted string.
It works for reasonably recent versions of browsers (for example FF 22+).
const onPasteFn = (e) => {
var myData = e.clipboardData.getData("text/plain");
setTimeout(() => document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = myData, 0)
}<input type="text" maxLength="5" onpaste="onPasteFn(event)" />
<p id="demo"></p>Set a higher maxLength if the pasted string is expected to be larger. Your sample input string has length 29. So here is modified code with maxLength=30.
const onPasteFn = (e) => {
setTimeout(() => document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = e.target.value, 0)
}<input type="text" maxLength="30" onpaste="onPasteFn(event)" />
<p id="demo"></p>