ClipboardEvent: clipboardData property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.
TheclipboardData property of theClipboardEvent interface holds aDataTransfer object, which can be used to:
- specify what data should be put into the clipboard from the
cutandcopyevent handlers, typically with asetData(format, data)call; - obtain the data to be pasted from the
pasteevent handler, typically with agetData(format)call.
See thecut,copy, andpaste events documentation for more information.
Value
ADataTransfer object.
The property can benull when the event is created using the constructor. It is nevernull when dispatched by the browser.
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| Clipboard API and events # clipboardevent-clipboarddata |
Browser compatibility
See also
- Copy-related events:
copy,cut,paste - The
ClipboardEventinterface it belongs to. - Clipboard API