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Joe Steinbring
Joe Steinbring

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How do you interact with the clipboard using JavaScript?

This should be a pretty quick post. I wanted to explore how to Copy/Cut/Paste on a webpage. I figured how to do Copy and Cut pretty easily but Paste was a different story.

So, why isnโ€™t paste working in the pen? It looks like as of Chrome 39, you can only do it after declaring the clipboard permissions in the manifest file. Am I going to do that for this demo? Of course not. ๐Ÿ™‚

Have a better way to do this โ€ฆ or a easy solution for fixing paste? Please drop a comment, below.

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