Catch paste input

Question

I\'m looking for a way to sanitize input that I paste into the browser, is this possible to do with jQuery?

I\'ve managed to come up with this so far:

Answer 1

You can actually grab the value straight from the event. Its a bit obtuse how to get to it though.

Return false if you don't want it to go through.

$(this).on('paste', function(e) {

  var pasteData = e.originalEvent.clipboardData.getData('text')

});