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How to detect right mouse click + paste using JavaScript?

Asked 2009-01-14T01:51:51.887
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Is there a way to detect a right click followed by paste with JavaScript on IE and Firefox ?

Update:

I decided to use Jquery to do it:

$('#controlId').bind('paste', null, function() {
    // code
});

It's not exactly what I was looking (because it gets fired on 'ctrl + v' as well as in 'right click + paste' but I can work around it.

Tested it on Chrome, Firefox 3, IE 7 and IE 6 and it's working

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A cheap hack (that works) that you can try is:

  • jQuery's mouseleave function.

I've noticed with IE8 that if you right-click in a text box and then select 'paste', it delays the "mouseleave" event until the paste has finished. So it consistently fires right after the paste! :) Works for me and got me out of trouble perfectly actually.

This is only for an intranet app, I haven't tested in Firefox etc.

Cheers

answered 2009-06-03T00:12:30.947

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