JavaScript get clipboard data on paste event (Cross browser)

Question

How can a web application detect a paste event and retrieve the data to be pasted?

I would like to remove HTML content before the text is pasted into a rich text edi

Answer 1

function myFunct( e ){
    e.preventDefault();

    var pastedText = undefined;
    if( window.clipboardData && window.clipboardData.getData ){
    pastedText = window.clipboardData.getData('Text');
} 
else if( e.clipboardData && e.clipboardData.getData ){
    pastedText = e.clipboardData.getData('text/plain');
}

//work with text

}
document.onpaste = myFunct;