In the absence of a paste event, you'd have to poll the input's value,
since the change event doesn't fire until the input loses focus.

Tim

On Friday, 8 April 2011, Nathan Sweet <[email protected]> wrote:
> Firefox 3 supports the paste event, but minimally. FF3 (idk about FF 3.6+) 
> fires the cut, copy, and paste events whenever these actions are inputted by 
> the user, it does not check to see that something has actually been cut, 
> copied, or pasted, it simply fire the event unceremoniously, and for most 
> purposes, quite uselessly. Getting a good paste listener is going to require 
> some sort of plugin, I doubt very much that jQuery has reliable native 
> support. There might be something to having a change and keydown listener on 
> the element and comparing the results to see what has changed.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Tim Down <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Friday, 8 April 2011, scalvert <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I need to detect a right-click paste into a regular input of type
>> text. I only need to support the following:
>>
>> IE 7+
>> FF 2+
>> Safari 4+
>> Chrome 7+
>>
>> I found this post on SO:
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/686995/jquery-catch-paste-input
>>
>> And yes, I'm using jQuery. Does anyone have any experience with this?
>> Pointers, tips, suggestions, cautionary tales?
>
> You have no chance in Firefox 2, which doesn't support the paste
> event. Firefox 3 and all other browsers support the paste event.
>
> Tim
>
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