InputEvent: dataTransfer property
The dataTransfer
read-only property of the
InputEvent
interface returns a DataTransfer
object
containing information about richtext or plaintext data being added to or removed from
editable content.
Value
A DataTransfer
object or null
. The spec has an overview of its value in various cases.
Examples
In the following simple example we've set up an event listener on the input event so that when any
content is pasted into the contenteditable <p>
element, its HTML source
is retrieved via the
InputEvent.dataTransfer.getData()
method and reported in the paragraph below the input.
Try copying and pasting some of the content provided to see the effects.
html
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: blue">Whoa, bold blue text!</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-style: italic; color: red">Exciting: italic red text!</span>
</p>
<p>Boring normal text ;-(</p>
<hr />
<p contenteditable="true">
Go on, try pasting some content into this editable paragraph and see what
happens!
</p>
<p class="result"></p>
js
const editable = document.querySelector("p[contenteditable]");
const result = document.querySelector(".result");
editable.addEventListener("input", (e) => {
result.textContent = e.dataTransfer.getData("text/html");
});
Specifications
Specification |
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Input Events Level 2 # dom-inputevent-datatransfer |
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