Mozilla / Firefox equivalent to IE onpaste for textareas

Mark Szlazak wrote:

Is there anything for Mozilla or Firefox that would be equivalent to
IE's onpaste event for a textarea?

I should add that using onchange presents a problem since the event
doesn't fire until the textarea looses focus. Whatever solutions that
exist need to work like onpaste without the focus issues of onchange.

Mark Szlazak wrote:

Mark Szlazak wrote:

Is there anything for Mozilla or Firefox that would be equivalent to
IE's onpaste event for a textarea?

There is no equivalent to onpaste event for a textarea, as far as I
understand your post.
"Fires on the target object when the user pastes data, transferring the
data from the system clipboard to the document."
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/a...ts/onpaste.asp
I should add that using onchange presents a problem since the event
doesn't fire until the textarea looses focus. Whatever solutions that
exist need to work like onpaste without the focus issues of onchange.

Maybe if you could provide an url showing how your script works for
MSIE, I could have a look at it and maybe propose an alternative.

DU
--
The site said to use Internet Explorer 5 or better... so I switched to
Mozilla 1.7.6 :)

DU wrote:

Maybe if you could provide an url showing how your script works for
MSIE, I could have a look at it and maybe propose an alternative.

DU

Thanks for the offer DU but I do have alternatives. However, I need to
seriously consider this particular option if a viable one exists.

Mark Szlazak wrote:

Is there anything for Mozilla or Firefox that would be equivalent to
IE's onpaste event for a textarea?

You could try to use
<textarea oninput="..."
with Mozilla, of course it doesn't fire only for text being pasted but
also for other text manipulation like cutting text but at I think it is
the only event handler in Mozilla and HTML documents being fired when
text is pasted into a text control.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Martin Honnen wrote:

Mark Szlazak wrote:

Is there anything for Mozilla or Firefox that would be equivalent to IE's onpaste event for a textarea?
You could try to use
<textarea oninput="..."
with Mozilla, of course it doesn't fire only for text being pasted

but also for other text manipulation like cutting text but at I think it is the only event handler in Mozilla and HTML documents being fired when text is pasted into a text control.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

That will work just fine. Thanks.

Martin Honnen wrote:

Mark Szlazak wrote:

Is there anything for Mozilla or Firefox that would be equivalent to
IE's onpaste event for a textarea?

You could try to use
<textarea oninput="..."
with Mozilla, of course it doesn't fire only for text being pasted but
also for other text manipulation like cutting text but at I think it is
the only event handler in Mozilla and HTML documents being fired when
text is pasted into a text control.

frm.ctlName.addEventListener("DOMCharacterDataModi fied",
function(e){myEventHandler(e);}, false);

This method works, but it has several minor bugs which I logged at:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285272

Also, note that if you do something like select the 5 in 54321
and then press 6 (changing the text to 64321) you will fire twice:
The first time the value will be 4321,
and the second firing will have 64321

Csaba Gabor from Vienna

ok

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