It seems that the only way to add an onPaste event to an input element is to use HTML:

<textarea id="text_area" onpaste="on_paste" />

rather than being able to attach the event handler using JavaScript:

document.getElementById('text_area').onPaste = function() { alert('I iz in ur textbox, pasting some text') };

The MSDN website says you can only add event handlers for onPaste using jscript or HTML, but I want to do it in JavaScript. Is there any way to do this?

It seems that the only way to add an onPaste event to an input element is to use HTML:

<textarea id="text_area" onpaste="on_paste" />

rather than being able to attach the event handler using JavaScript:

document.getElementById('text_area').onPaste = function() { alert('I iz in ur textbox, pasting some text') };

The MSDN website says you can only add event handlers for onPaste using jscript or HTML, but I want to do it in JavaScript. Is there any way to do this?

• javascript
• internet-explorer
• dom-events

• jScript is JavaScript - it's just what Microsoft calls its implementation. – MrWhite Commented Jan 26, 2012 at 14:47

2 Answers 2

Try lowercase:

document.getElementById('text_area').onpaste = ...

It is down to capitalisation, you want:

document.getElementById('text_area').onpaste = function() { alert('I iz in ur textbox, pasting some text') };