How do I capture the input value on a paste event?

On my site users can paste text (in this case a url) into an input field. I'd like to capture the value of the text that was pasted using jQuery. I've got this to work in FF using the code below, but it doesn't work in IE (I don't think IE supports the "paste" event).

Anyone know how to make this work across all modern browsers? I've found a few other answers to this on SO but most are FF-only and none seemed to offer a complete solution.

Here's the code I have so far:

$("input.url").live('p开发者_如何学Caste', function(event) {
    var _this = this;
    // Short pause to wait for paste to complete
    setTimeout( function() {
        var text = $(_this).val();
        $(".display").html(text);
    }, 100);
});

JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/TZWsB/1/

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jQuery has a problem with the live-method with the paste-event in the IE; workaround:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $(".url").bind('paste', function(event) {
        var _this = this;
        // Short pause to wait for paste to complete
        setTimeout( function() {
            var text = $(_this).val();
            $(".display").html(text);
        }, 100);
    });
});

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Trg9F/

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$('input').on('paste', function(e) {
    // common browser -> e.originalEvent.clipboardData
    // uncommon browser -> window.clipboardData
    var clipboardData = e.clipboardData || e.originalEvent.clipboardData || window.clipboardData;
    var pastedData = clipboardData.getData('text');
});

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Listen for the change event as well as paste. change will reliably fire on a changed field before submission, whereas paste only happens on browsers that support it on an explicit paste; it won't be triggered by other editing actions such as drag-and-drop, cut-copy, undo-redo, spellcheck, IME substitution etc.

The problem with change is that it doesn't fire straight away, only when editing in a field is finished. If you want to catch all changes as they happen, the event would be input... except that this is a new HTML5 feature that isn't supported everywhere (notably: IE<9). You could nearly do it by catching all these events:

$('.url').bind('input change paste keyup mouseup',function(e){
    ...
});

But if you want to definitely catch every change quickly on browsers that don't support input, you have no choice but to poll the value on a setInterval.

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Even better is it to use e.originalEvent.clipboardData.getData('text'); to retrieve pasted data;

$("input").on("paste", function(e) { 
    var pastedData = e.originalEvent.clipboardData.getData('text');
    // ... now do with pastedData whatever you like ...
});

This way you can avoid timeouts and it is supported on all major browsers.

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Maybe try using the onblur event instead. So the user c/p into the input and when they leave the field the script checks what's there. This could save a whole lot of hassle, since it works for mouse and key c/p as well as manually entered input.