Paste file into web page from Windows explorer

Asked Nov 06 '17 at 16:51

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I'm trying to paste a file from Windows Explorer into a web page. When accessing event.clipboardData items, files and types are all empty.

If I take a screenshot (Ctrl+PrintScrn) or copy a plain text and then paste into the web page, items and types are populated just fine.

I attached the paste event on window. I'm using latest Chrome.

asked Nov 06 '17 at 16:51

Adrian Ber

Possible duplicate of this question. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8578136/how-to-read-a-file-on-paste-event-in-html5 – Praveen Alluri Nov 06 '17 at 16:52
That is in jQuery, my question is for pure javascript. – Adrian Ber Nov 06 '17 at 17:34
Just change `$('body').bind('paste', function(a, b, c) {` to `document.body.addEventListener('paste', function(a, b, c) {`, the rest of the code is already pure JS ;) – Gaurang Tandon Jun 27 '18 at 10:00
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It's not about jquery/pure javascript.. Do browsers support paste **from windows file explorer**? – iplus26 Feb 15 '19 at 06:51

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