Is it possible to get pasted text without using the setTimeout() function?

Question

I found out that when pasting text (i.e. Hello) by using the mouse, the following function will throw an empty popup:

$(\'input:text\').onpaste          


        

Answer 1

I don't think the bellow code works on IE8 since the input value is not changed when alert() executed.

 $('input').bind('input paste', function(e) {
     alert($(this).val());
 }); 

on Firefox and Chrome, it works fine.