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

Question

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

Answer 1

$('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');
});