jQuery bind to Paste Event, how to get the content of the paste

Question

I have a jquery token tagit plugin and I want to bind to the paste event to add items correctly.

I\'m able to bind to the paste event like so:

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Answer 1

I recently needed to accomplish something similar to this. I used the following design to access the paste element and value. jsFiddle demo

$('body').on('paste', 'input, textarea', function (e)
{
    setTimeout(function ()
    {
        //currentTarget added in jQuery 1.3
        alert($(e.currentTarget).val());
        //do stuff
    },0);
});