This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The dataTransfer
read-only property of the InputEvent
interface returns a DataTransfer
object containing information about richtext or plaintext data being added to or removed from editible content.
Syntax
var dataTransfer = inputEvent.dataTransfer
Value
A DataTransfer
object.
Examples
In the following simple example we've set up an event listener on the input event so that when any content is pasted into the contenteditable <p>
element, its HTML source is retrieved via the InputEvent.dataTransfer.getData()
method and reported in the paragraph below the input.
Try copying and pasting some of the content provided to see the effects.
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: blue">Whoa, bold blue text!</span></p> <p><span style="font-style: italic; color: red">Exciting: italic red text!</span></p> <p>Boring normal text ;-(</p> <hr> <p contenteditable="true">Go on, try pasting some content into this editable paragraph and see what happens!</p> <p class="result"></p>
var editable = document.querySelector('p[contenteditable]'); var result = document.querySelector('.result') var dataTransferObj; editable.addEventListener('input', (e) => { result.textContent = e.dataTransfer.getData('text/html'); });
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
Input Events Level 2 The definition of 'dataTransfer' in that specification. |
Working Draft | Initial definition. |
Browser Compatibility
The compatibility table on this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
dataTransfer | Chrome Full support 60 | Edge Full support 79 | Firefox Full support 67 | IE No support No | Opera Full support 47 | Safari No support No | WebView Android Full support 60 | Chrome Android Full support 60 | Firefox Android Full support 67 | Opera Android Full support 44 | Safari iOS No support No | Samsung Internet Android Full support 8.0 |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.