How to put clipboard data into TextBox

Ravindra Bisen

Hi , I have a string into clipboard (FirstName MiddleName Last Name). i want to paste this data into three different Textbox by a single paste in First Textbox. ex . if i paste "Ravi Shankar Sharma" then the data should appear like this First Text box : Ravi Second Text Box: Shankar Third text box : Sharma any one can help me

J4amieC

jQuery solution is pretty simples, but there is one weirdness, you cant read the value of the field until after it's been pasted, so I intoduce a short 1ms delay between paste, and trying to update the field:

$('#first').on('paste',function(e){

setTimeout(function(){
var text = $('#first').val().split(' ');
$('#first').val(text[0]);
$('#second').val(text[1]);
$('#third').val(text[2]);
},1)
});

Live example: http://jsfiddle.net/PjT28/[^] I also don;t cover any of the multitude of error conditions (empty paste, paste without 3 names separated by a single space etc etc etc)

Ravindra Bisen

<html>
<head>
<title>Java Script - Capita Learning : ClipBoard Data </title>

function afterPaste(txt)
{
  var T = window.clipboardData.getData('Text');
  document.getElementById('Txt\_Data2').value = T;
  document.getElementById("Txt\_Data3").value = T;
   var len = T.length;
   var n = T.indexOf(" ");
    document.getElementById("Txt\_Data2").value = T.substring(0,n);
    T = T.substring(n+1,len);
    len = T.length;
n = T.indexOf(" ");
    document.getElementById("Txt\_Data3").value = T.substring(0,n);
document.getElementById("Txt\_Data4").value = T.substring(n+1,len);

}

</script>
</Head>
<body>
<p> On Paste event in java script
<p> <Input Type="Textbox" ID="Txt_Data" OnPaste="afterPaste(this.value)" >
<p> <Input Type="Textbox" ID="Txt_Data2" Name="Txt_Data2" >
<p> <Input Type="Textbox" ID="Txt_Data3" Name="Txt_Data3" >
<p> <Input Type="Textbox" ID="Txt_Data4" Name="Txt_Data4" >

</body>
</html>

itzzmearun

hi, I think this will work only in ie.what we can do for other browsers?

DaveAuld

You could try putting Google Search to use........I am sure you could probably find something relevant in the time it took you to post that message.

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