On 2015-05-26 10:42 AM, Jesper Kristensen wrote: It would be much faster if I could just present a "Paste data" or
"Upload from clipboard" button, which could load the data from the clipboard directly into a JavaScript string without first trying to render it. I feel that doing this by handling the paste event on a text area would be a confusing user experience, since you would have a visible text area that would not work when you type into it, and it looks like you would see your text when you paste, but you won't. So I believe I need to trigger the paste event when the user clicks a button in order to do this.
Your use case is the intended use of the paste event and doesn't require a separate button.
The following, for example, pastes only the first letter of the text on the clipboard:
<input onpaste="this.value = event.clipboardData.getData('text/plain')[0]; event.preventDefault()">
What you can't do though is have two separate types of pastes, such as a normal Paste and a Paste Without Formatting type of option, although you could workaround this with a toggle that needs to be clicked first.
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