How to modify pasted data ? Jquery

Question

I followed this question JavaScript get clipboard data on paste event (Cross browser) to get the pasted data from the clipboard, but I used jquery instead. Now that I got t

Answer 1

Might be easier to let the paste proceed and update element immediately after. Would depend on use case also as cursor position could be lost this way

$(':input').on('paste', function (e) {
    var $el = $(this); 
    setTimeout(function () {
        $el.val(function(){
            return this.value.replace(/foo/g, "bar"); 
        })
    });
})

foo was here